Word: headsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Theirs was far from the last execution. In Breslau another top-hatted headsman swung his sword on another Communist neck. Ten more Reds were sentenced to death in Dessau while 19 others were waiting in German jails for headsmen to get their second wind...
...spurious confirmation to the lie Elizabeth has spread about her kinswoman. The Lords then murder Darnley, shift the blame to Bothwell when he marries Mary. They defeat Mary and Bothwell in battle. Mary escapes from their jail into Elizabeth's jail and her tragedy waits only on the headsman's sword. Author Anderson entirely whitewashes Mary and Bothwell for the murder of Darnley...
Adolf Hitler's electioneering bark that when he became Dictator "Heads will roll in the sand!" ended factually in the sharp-bitten order of Sub-Dictator Hermann Wilhelm Goring to revive the medieval headsman's axe and chopping block in executing criminals duly condemned by Prussian courts to Death (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week three heads rolled off bloody blocks in the courtyards of Berlin prisons and a prominent Nazi official furnished correspondents with beheading facts...
Conqueror Napoleon introduced the French guillotine into Prussia. Last week Captain Göring banished it by decree. He substituted the medieval chopping block and headsman's axe. The headsman, he prescribed, must always wear impeccable evening dress...
...England, lost themselves in low clouds over Nairobi. A stiff wind blew them off-course, crashed their plane into a boulder-studded ridge. For two days planes from Nairobi scoured the wild Kenya country, finally spotted the wreck. Meanwhile Miss Sale-Barker, searching for water, had encountered a Masai headsman, sent him to Nairobi with a note written with lipstick. Rescuers took out Miss Sale-Barker by automobile, Miss Page, whose leg was broken, by plane...