Word: jailor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes--the sun was on the hilltops; at sunset the poison must be taken. Soon the jailor entered and strangely broke down and wept as he announced that the potion had been prepared. Crito begged Socrates to delay; there was still time enough to relax and eat and drink...
...asked for the cup. "I do not think I should gain anything by drinking the poison a little later," he said. "I should be sparing and saving a life which is already gone; I could only laugh at myself for this." There was silence deep as death as the jailor brought in the poison. He could make no libation to the gods, Socrates learned; there was only just "enough...
Included in the cast in Professor William Y. Elliott, who will play the part of Lockit, the Jailor, while other parts in the play will be portrayed as follows: Mr. Peachum by Alan J .Dimond '37; Lucy Lockit by Ralph Lazzaro '36; Captain Macheat by John Gochenour '36; Polly by Courtland Canby '36; Mrs. Peachum by Peter L. Scott '36; The Beggar by Leonard Hammer '38; Filch by Robert C. Cochrane, Jr. '38; Dianna Trapes by Robert E. Rogers '38; and William L. Batt '38 will play the part of "The Player...
...Give Germans condemned to death the right to take their own lives as the Greeks gave Socrates a bowl of hemlock. In the modern Nazi State the procedure recommended last week is for the German jailor to enter the cell of the condemned and say, "Here is a pistol and a bottle of poison. Take your choice." According to the Ministry of Justice, "Criminals of the fouler sort should not, of course, receive this privilege. They should be decapitated, as at present. The theory of permitting a man to carry out his own sentence is the logical fulfillment...