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...ordered this and that peasant or laborer to perjure himself before the courts in order to secure the release of a captured member. She fixed the ransoms and organized their method of collection. All the fiendish devilry in the gangs was said to emanate from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mafia Trial | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Come into this death house with me," began Mr. Grey. Lurid details followed. Among them: "Elliott, the official killer, stood to the right of him with a fiendish grin on his face. ... He leaped, literally leaped, to the switchboard. . . . The switch went in. ... Sacco's hands . . . doubled into a knot. The veins in his long, thin, white hands began to rise and kept on rising until I thought they would burst and drench all of us with blood. . . . Sacco's neck was swelling to a huge inhuman size. . . . The saliva was literally pouring out of his mouth. . . . Try to compare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Geneva | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Spanish atmosphere, presents the most authentic (but not at all unusual) impression of a medical student's nightmare. Bodies! Bodies! Bodies! Stuck all over the stage. Hung in midair, on dangling hooks. Rigid-as the law requires. Slowly they are wheeled in circles, yanked up, let down, by fiendish, invisible agencies. Occasionally they spring into action, appear as living, writhing creatures. Into this horror have strayed a few bits of freshness-Magda de Bries in a rattling dance, Moran and Mack, funny in spite of stale skits, Julius Tannen, dialogue comedian, and best of all, Julius Tannen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 6, 1926 | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...organized the dread Communist "Cheka," or "Extraordinary Commission," an agency of suppression, destruction and terror, an agency of superb, fiendish efficiency. While the Tsarol police had favored the living death of Siberia for their victims, Dzerzhinsky, merciful perhaps, signed death warrants literally by the bale. "There is no god but the Cheka, and Dzerzhinsky is its pope!" became a black byword in the years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Black Pope | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...With utmost disgust and abhorrence I read the account in TIME of German Schwarz and his fiendish acts. And now Karl Busch rises against Americans for not appreciating the actions of Schwarz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

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