Word: punish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliance of the scene by appearing throughout the trial in a pair of pink-striped pajamas from Bond Street. The hero of the Antarctic mopped his brow under the withered fig-tree and gave judgment: 1) Lewd Phineas was banished from Bechuanaland forever. 2) For daring to punish a white man, Chief Tshekedi was removed from the Bamangwato tribe, exiled from his tribal lands. Admiral Evans pronounced the verdict on Chief Tshekedi as sympathetically as possible...
...Assyrian Patriarch Mar Shimun, who was deported last week with his father and brother. At once the British Government offered these exiles asylum on the Island of Cyprus to which they flew in a British R.A.F. plane and demanded that King Feisal stay in Bagdad to punish the guilty - whether Christian or Mohammedan. To the Irak Legation in London falcon-eyed King Feisal promptly cabled: "Although everything is normal now in Irak, and in spite of my broken health, I shall await the arrival of Sir Francis Humphrys in Bagdad, but there is no reason for further anxiety. Inform...
...about that pretty, non-Jewish girl whom they had dragged around town orfe night earlier in the week. Aged only 19 and a typical Gretchen with two long plaits of blonde hair, the girl was seized by Storm Troopers when they found her in company with a Jew. To punish such treachery to Nazi "pure race" ideals, they cut off her blonde plaits, shaved her head, tied a placard around her neck reading "I have offered myself to a Jew" and pinned the plaits to the placard. Until after midnight the girl was dragged from cabaret to cabaret, forced...
Some commissars have actually called in brown-shirted Storm Troops to oust business leaders who too strongly resisted Nazi dictation. Last week such interference was classed legally as "kidnapping" in a drastic decree issued by Prussian Minister of Justice Dr. Hans Kerrl who promised to punish offenders without mercy. "Force or threats" against business executives were expressly barred by Dr. Kerrl and he branded many Nazi commissioners as "saboteurs and provocateurs" who will be brought before special courts and face "not only imprisonment but even the death penalty...
...family, plays the piano a little, fusses a lot with her clothes, is always late for appointments, is not at all hard to look at, likes the sweet tenors on the radio, plays a little contract, likes the movies and sentimental poetry and has just received a license to punish the family car. Oh! yes-and I almost forgot to say that she plans and administers the family budget with a close hand (though this may be proving too much) and yet devours TIME from cover to cover, and insists upon no less than two years subscription at a time...