Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such, at least, was the theory advanced in a 5,000-word statement issued last week by General Antonio Rios Zertuchg, Mexican Chief of Police, official reply to insinuations implicating Mexico's President in General Obregon's murder...
Pope v. Calles. The Osservatore Romano, semi-official Vatican organ, replied with a repetition of its accusations linking the Mexican executive's name with General Obregon's murder. It scoffed at Calles' "thirst for justice," declared that his own guilt was obvious to anyone who had followed, step by step, events in Mexico. "The road which led him, together with Obregon, over the corpses of Carranza, Gomez and Serrano, led Calles fatally to pass also over Obregon's dead body ... did his best to hide the key that makes the truth obvious...
...Italian sings like a bird in order to live himself out, he paints because he has to, he writes poetry or commits murder because he cannot help it. Finally he embraces Fascism, dazzled by its deification of heroism, and this principle is the highest by which nations can live...
...play closes weakly enough, neither answering nor emphasizing the problem on which it is constructed. The Major, compelled to recognize his servant as a man, explains the circumstances of the murder to a French official who is full of stagey gallantry. Then, taking Israel Dubois with him, Major Powell starts going home...
Hysteria, trickiest of psychopathic states, is an escape from reality, from conflict. Mrs. Morf it protected from the horror of nearby murder. For her it was too thorough. Others it protects from scolding, from efforts. Sometimes hysteria comes on involuntarily; often the man, woman or child (having observed its value) willfully scurries into it; more often the person tries to fight off an attack and, horrified, watches himself sink into contrariness...