Word: punished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crescendo seldom excelled in hoodlum stories since Public Enemy. Within its tighter limits You Only Live Once has a signature of realism no less stark and confident than the famed Warner Bros, story. It presents in addition its own modest problem in sociology: has the State a right to punish a man for a crime committed due to pressure put upon him through a miscarriage of justice? Producer Walter Wanger leaves the conclusion to the audience, having arranged as a tacit persuader Eddie's doomed and breath-taking flight toward the Canadian border with his wife, Joan (Sylvia Sidney...
...They appointed a "Jury of Honor" under General Marie Gustave Gamelin. Chief of the French General Staff, and this last fortnight whitewashed the Minister of Interior by discovering extenuating circumstances, but he is likely to be called "Cyclist Salengro" to his dying day. Indignant, Premier Blum was resolved to punish the man he blamed for organizing the anti-Blum newspaper bloc, M. Pierre Guimier, a director in Paris of the Agence Havas, chief French wire service and advertising agency...
Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn) and her sister Flora (Elizabeth Allan) are daughters of a mid-Victorian prig (Donald Crisp) who, to punish them for disobeying their governess, can think of nothing more suitable than to marry them off. Flora soon weds a young officer in the Navy. Pam's young man turns out to be a cad; he leaves her on the verge of becoming a husbandless mother. When an accident kills off Flora's ensign, Flora, also pregnant, dies of the shock. Painful but convenient, the circumstances of her death - in Italy where both sisters are holidaying...
...walrus-mustached British General named Robert Cornells Napier landed on the coast of Eritrea with 32,000 men, six cannon and a herd of baggage elephants. Into Ethiopia they marched to punish Emperor Theodore for the torture and imprisonment of a group of British officers. Three months later the British column had fought its way some 400 miles inland and had defeated Theodore's tribesmen at Magdala. Emperor Theodore promptly blew his brains out with a revolver presented to him by Queen Victoria. By June 18, five months after the expedition had started, the last British soldier had left...
...have helped Adolf Hitler draft his more considered speeches. These were Herr Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff and Dr. Friedrich Gaus, whom any professional diplomat would recognize as aces in their line. They said that Dr. Gaus had made the discovery, after analyzing all treaties concerned, that legally the League cannot punish Germany's present treaty violations by sanctions. This "discovery" the Poles, though they have a ten-year non-aggression pact with Hitler, greeted by sarcastically remarking in London, "Germany is making it easier for us to support France...