Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What moved Baron von Bissing to this abhorrence of his fatherland? His friends declare that a partial cause was the judicial murder of a woman whose death was laid at the door of General von Bissing by Allied propaganda- Miss Edith Cayell. To erase that stigma from his family name was the futile hope and almost fanatical desire of the late Baron Walter von Bissing. The death of Miss Cavell has, of course, begun to seem less of a martyrdom to impartial neutrals as the facts have come to light...
...correspondents who become righteously indignant over something about which you may either be right or wrong, and most particularly do I delight in your sophistry in an age when the daily papers are so shocked at every tiny incident, be it a street car off the track, just another murder, or scandal in public life. It is indeed a restful and soothing experience to approach my newsstand each week. DOUGLAS W. CHURCHILL...
...mean robbery. . . "The insurrection, the great movement of the soul, do not nedd dollars. It nedd love, light, spirit of sacrifice, idears, conscience instints. And all this blassing things can be seeded, awoked, growed up in the heart of man in every way but with robbery or murder for robbery. . . "Do not violate the law of Nature if you do not want to be miserable. I remember : it was a night without a moon but stary. I sit alone in the darkness, I was sorry, very sorry. With the face in my hands I began to look at the stars...
...Belgium babbled on. Their Majesties answered her questions gently, tactfully, with heavy hearts. The day was the 69th anniversary of her marriage to Maximilian of Austria, who became for three years (1864-67) Emperor of Mexico.* Fear for her husband's safety and a premonition of his execution (murder) drove her mercifully insane a year before the event. She imagines herself still Empress of Mexico. She assumes that her brother, the late King Leopold II still reigns in Belgium. Secure within the armor of perpetual delusion she enjoys a tranquil happiness not vouchsafed to normal mortals. Sometimes she lives...
...years ago in Omaha, Neb., one Tony Veneziano clutched his throat and toppled into the gutter, never to move again. One Paul Blackwood, accused of his murder, pleaded self-defense, was set free. Last week some gentlemen behind a fence shot and killed Blackwood and his wife as they walked home from the theatre. A detective questioned Mrs. Veneziano...