Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...another wayfarer at the inn could not cure the servant girl's earache. The pain, proved to be caused by an ant which was brought out by means of a ladle of water. The story is well told. "Un Roi de France" and "The Hoss-Thief" are tales of murder and sudden death. In the first, one does not fully sympathize with Pierre in his heroic calm while the flames of the burning building licked his feet. But "then mercifully, he fainted," which, of course, makes his end less horrible. The story of the "hoss-thief" is told thirty years...
...night before. He discovers to his horror that he has brought home, besides various articles of female apparel, an old schoolmate as a bed-fellow, who is suffering from the effects of the same hilarity. The wife of the bourgeois enters, newspaper in hand, and reads about the gruesome murder of a coal-heaver's daughter which has been committed in the rue de Lourcine. The two listeners find coal upon their hands, and all the evidence points to their having committed the crime during hours of which they remember nothing. Panic-stricken, they proceed to drown their fear...
...Henderson then recounted much of the history of the convention of the States General of 1789, and told the story of the burning of the toll-gates, the closing of the Opera, the sack of the Hotel des Invalides, and finally the storming of the Bastille. The murder of Delaunay, the governor of the fortress, caused the latent bloodthirstiness of the Paris mob, whose excesses have become so famous, to break forth in all its fury...
...Green Bag--"English and American Murder Trials," L. M. Friedman '93; "The Justification of Fair Competition," B. Wyman...
...herself fully equal to her very exhausting and difficult part. Her rendering was throughout a highly emotional, rather than a finished intellectual one, and she was at her best in depicting the struggle between her mother's love and her desire for revenge; a struggle which ends in the murder of her two children. She expressed well the barbarian nature which is the under lying cause of the unhappiness of her marriage with Jason, but she failed to convey the supernatural element in Medea. Mr. Carl Machold, as her weak husband Jason, gave a very good portrayal of the Greek...