Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prisoners Sacco and Vanzetti refused last rites from the prison priest. They would die as they had lived, they said. Faith in a communistic order of mankind was enough for them...
Prisoners Sacco and Vanzetti died in the order that their names had long been coupled, seven minutes apart...
Boston Common, for the first time in history, was closed to public orators. Order there and elsewhere was maintained by the full Boston police force on 24-hour duty. Riot squads were equipped with automatic rifles, hand grenades, tear bombs. Exciting looking characters were immediately boxed in by police and marched off "to protect them from mob violence...
...Satin Woman (Mrs. Wallace Reed). The heroine is a Mother. In order to save her daughter from a cabaret sheik, she vamps the man herself. This is doubly effective strategy, for it succeeds in recapturing the interest of her own husband, who has been straying toward a passionate brunette. When the entire family has been corralled, Mother gives up the fashion shows and night clubs to return to the hearth. Thus the dumpling of Virtue is set, though not obtrusively, upon the hotcakes of Hollywood...
...Italy, digging went forward as never before. Rome needs a subway. The tracks will run about on the level of the city of the Caesars. Archaeologists will watch over the shoulders of blasters, pickers and sandhogs to recover relics, having authority to order deviation from the engineers' surveys to preserve buried buildings, whose locations are first carefully mapped...