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Set during the stormy reign of King Henry VIII, the play revolves around the events leading up to Sir Thomas More's execution for refusing to sanction Henry's divorce of his first wife to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. Henry doesn't require More's permission as his chancellor...
The fund had its origins in Brandeis's fruitless efforts, through Frankfurter, to stop the 1927 execution of Sacco and Vanzetti: in total, more than $50,000 passed from Brandeis to Frankfurter, before the latter joined the bench in 1939, an appointee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, for whom...
And then a leg appears. The leg, it turns out, is undoubtedly attached to the beggar's very own fantastically attired fairy godmother. Standing with one foot in the air, the four-armed fairy god-mother (Nela Wagman), bells, frizzy hair, Safron dress and all, keeps the audience in hysterics...
Laschen's assigned sidekick, a good-time Charley photographer who has qualms neither visceral nor moral about making a profession of photographing severed limbs, deals with the situation by not thinking about it. Laschen, mouth he claims, "I don't write what I think. I write what I see. It...
It was from the Jews, cries Steiner's Führer, that he learned everything: "To set a race apart. To keep it from defilement. To hold before it a promised land ..." What really enslaved mankind, Hitler raves on, was the Jewish invention of a God purer than any...