Word: seene
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Star witness called by the Nazi prosecutor was a cowed-looking German in convict garb. Testifying in disjointed fragments, this jailbird swore that he had recognized a picture of Nisselbeck shown him by Nazi police as being that of a man he had seen consorting in Czechoslovakia with anti-Nazi refugees from Germany...
...Nevertheless, it has been suddenly observed in recent weeks that Japan's few rabble-rousing proletarian candidates were actually drawing audiences of respectable size. As the slow Japanese counting of votes began, a big surprise broke last week when the previously minuscule Social Masses Party was seen to have won 18 seats in the new Diet, all of which will be occupied by thoroughgoing rabble-rousers who can make Japanese politics lively if they dare...
...chamber execution of a pig in rehearsal of the execution of Murderer Otis McDaniels the following night. Said the Warden: "It gave them a mental picture for reference purposes of death in the gas chamber." Said McDaniels, excluded from the test execution: "I would have liked to have seen it." Following night the Warden invited a picked handful of convicts to watch the death of McDaniels...
...little boy is waiting, in a strange house in Paris, for a mother he has never seen. He knows nothing about the people in the house; they know all about him. In a flashback to the past, the story tells why. Karen is young, beautiful, intelligent, one of an English family so aristocratic that it can afford not to be snobbish. She is engaged to just the right man; he has gone to the Orient on business for several months. Karen has a French friend, Naomi, of the governess type; she too is just engaged. Karen knows and dislikes...
Meantime, Mrs. Liggett positively identified a liquor dealer named Isadore Blumenfield ("Kid Cann") as the man who killed her husband. As she sat in the family car, said Mrs. Liggett, she had seen Kid Cann lean out of a passing automobile and fire the fatal shots. At Kid Cann's trial, which began late in January, a second witness also identified him as the killer. This witness, who was in the alley behind the Liggett apartment, said he recognized Kid Cann because they had served time together in the local workhouse...