Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well-worded, but the brevity and disjointedness of the treatment detract much from the general effect of the story. Of a very different style is the story of "A Crime," from the French. It is vivid and picturesque, though the plot-a dream of a man who contemplated murder-is too horrible to be pleasant. The best article in the number is "Is in a Seaport Town." The description of the old decaying seaport town is charmingly written. The verse of the number consists of two college "poems" and a hunting song-"In Exmoor." Though the theme...
...dancing and were enthusiastically applauded. As an encore their doubles in costumes and size-Dexter, Whiting and Fairbank-appeared and were in turn encored. Then all six nymphs appeared together. In the third act, Brunhilde's and Siegfried's solos were well received, as well as the bloody murder of Siegfried by the villain Hagen. In the fourth act, the wailing dirge, "Why did he die," sung intentionally out of tune by the chorus, and the grovelling on the ground and appearance of Siegfried's ghost which followed, were well applauded. Then followed a number of tricks by Hagen...
This afternoon at 3 o'clock the exceptions in the Robinson murder trial, which will be heard next week by the Supreme Court of this State, will be argued at the Law School before Prof. Thayer as a moot court case-Storrow and Weston Smith for the government and Parker and Sanford for the defendant...
...They dictate to their employers, whose business they strive to rule; (b) they have sanctioned violence, and even aided in murder; (c) they persecute non-members; (d) they prevent the employment of capital, cause stagnation of business, and, hence, great loss of wealth; (e) they drive many of their members to crime and dissipation through loss of employment.- F. W. Taussig on south-western strike in Journal of Economics, Jan. 1887; Chicago Tribune, Feb. 13, 1887: Nation, Vol. 42, pp. 338, 401, 402, 418, 440, 441; also Vol. 43, pp., 469, 470; Boston Herald, March 21, 1886; Bradstreet...
...Loeb for the affirmative argued that the condemned anarchists who were away at the time the bomb was thrown had been at the meeting where the murder took place previously. The crowd was not charged by the police until the bomb was thrown. A few blood curdling extracts from socialistic papers were then read...