Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is the most essential duality in an artist? Says Matisse: "Hard work." That sounded as if Matisse slaved over his paintings, and he does, though they never show it. The best of them look as if they had taken him a happy half-hour. In the film, Matisse gives...
One top U.S. economic expert in China saw the program as a bold, brave effort to pull the nation out of its desperate economic slough. But the issue of new currency would have to be backed by honest and efficient execution of the rest of the government's promised...
That was why CAB last week ordered Wildcatter Weiss to suspend all operations, declared it would register no additional wildcat lines, ordered an investigation into all wildcat "practices and activities." Weiss, whose airline faces a death sentence if the CAB order sticks, went into court, and got a ten-day...
A Necktie, a Notebook. Unconscious but still alive, Polk was thrown overboard to drown-in stagnant water only 150 yards off shore. His money and most of his papers were left on the body, as evidence that not robbery but "deliberate execution" was the motive. Then his identity card was...
Respected Villain. Laski insists that he has written this book "out of deep love of America." He admits that the businessman's energy, skill and audacious vitality are (like the qualities of the best U.S. newsmen) "unsurpassed." He even concedes that the big businessman's faith in free...