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...woman's suicide, in protest at her man's unfaithfulness. When the native men, justifiably angered at the whites, started a surprise massacre, all the native men were killed, most of the whites. For a time after this civil war the remaining men lived in a stupor of alcohol and unbridled miscegenation; then the women turned against them, cornered the supply of muskets and shut themselves into a stockade. The male survivor of this Lysistratian war was finally reconciled, became the patriarch-consort of the island. When a Yankee ship put in to Pitcairn's Island...
...denunciations of Jews, liberals and radicals; it had heard promises of bigger and better meetings along this line; it had gazed at, read and reread a huge banner in the front of the hall which bore the inscription "German People in America! Awake!" It had feasted itself into a stupor on Hitler's gospel of hate, on the message of the most reactionary, finance-dominated regime in history...
...this play Mr. Rice made no bones about going to the judicial aftermath of the fire that mysteriously gutted Berlin's Reichstag Building in February 1933. Principal figures in that fantastic trial were Defendant Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutchman who seemed to be in a drugged stupor; Defendant George Dimitroff, a fiery, grim-lipped Bulgarian who mocked the proceedings, badgered the prosecution; gaudy, bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who, taunted by Dimitroff, flew into a trembling, sweating fury, shrieked: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that...
...Absinthe, painted by Belgium's late great Felicien Rops (1833-98) and showing a girl in the sodden stage of an absinthe drunk (see cut, p. 21). Most absinthe neophytes begin by taking too much, enjoy a brief stage of exhilaration (often quarrelsome), then lapse into an absinthe stupor, followed by sleep. They wake up with a terrific pounding headache which lasts all the next day and is punctuated by fits of vomiting...
...been 'shown in the proceedings before this court." On this basis Prosecutor Werner asked the Court to sentence Comrade Torgler to death. He also asked death for the fifth and last prisoner, famed Dutch Brickmason Marinus Van der Lubbe who was brought up from his cell in a stupor at every session of his trial but one. On that one day Van der Lubbe had shouted: "I have been questioned for over eight months! . . . Nothing ever happens. I don't agree to that! ... I set the fire. None of the other defendants had anything to do with...