Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Crimson debaters D. I. Cooke '31, R. B. Eckles '32, and H. G. Abdian '30 claimed that the multilateral arbitration treaty, as the first part of the United States program to deal with Latin countries on a basis of good will, was a small step towards the goal of...
The Case of Sergeant Grischa (RKO). When this story was published as a novel in the U. S. a year ago it was hailed as a masterpiece, in spite of the fact that its author, Arnold Zweig, had constructed it awkwardly. If Herbert Brenon, who directed the picture, had torn...
In the execution chamber of the State Prison at Florence, Ariz., hangs a row of 16 pictures of murderers executed there. Around each picture is looped the noose in which the criminal died. Last week prison attendants added a 17th picture and a 17th rope, thereby memorializing the picture of...
Resigned, cheerful in prison, she made friends with attendants, embroidered herself a silk shroud. All night before her execution she played whist with friends, stopped at midnight to make them some oyster stew. At dawn she marched off, unsupported, between two guards. She bantered with newsmen, posed for photographers, shook...
The Author. John (Roderigo) Dos Passos was born in Chicago (1896), has lived in Manhattan, Cambridge (Mass.). London, Brussels, Madrid, Paris. He graduated from Harvard cum laude in 1916. By conservatives considered a radi cal (all his writings have "social-revolutionary" leanings), he is looked at some what askance by...