Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Industry's desire to ease the vague but potent restraints of the Sherman Act was responsible for two significant Manhattan meetings last week. President John Emmett Edgerton of the National Association Manufacturers called into conference 28 of his colleagues to organize a drive on Congress for the law'...
Elementary arithmetic shows that the thirteenth of every month will be a Friday. And with thirteen months ... Considering the effect which the mere proposal has had in Nicaragua, the public will certainly be justified in insisting on the immediate execution of any person who continues with agitation for the new...
Chief cause of the riot seemed to be resentment against the State Pardon & Parole Board's administration of the indeterminate sentence law, by which the Board, and not judge or jury, ultimately fixes the time a prisoner must serve. Said round-faced, Roman Catholic Chaplain Elegius Weir: "One of...
The 13th Earl of Arundel, a Roman Catholic convert, was condemned to decapitation by Protestant Queen Elizabeth on charges of treason but died in the Tower of London before his execution day.
Actor Menjou makes "son of a ?" sound even more opprobrious and gutter-snipish than the term sounded in the mouth of Osgood Perkins who created the managing editor's part in the Broadway Front Page of onetime Chicago Newshawks Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Items more impolite than any...