Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Torres was brought from the military prison where he was confined, and was told by Lieut. Col. Fredico Zenteno that he was condemned to suffer death, and would be executed at once. On taking his pedigree, Torres said, with serenity and calmness, that he was a native of Saltillo, 37 year of age, unmarried and a farmer by occupation...
...Asked if he had any final requests to make, he replied that he had none; and in respect to the ill-fortune that he was about to suffer, said: 'What you are about to do is merely my fate overtaking...
...Noyers. Later, the 17-year-old daughter of Mme. Robert, described as "an extraordinarily pretty girl," deposed that she had helped to chastise the Abbé "only because my mother and the rest did. I did not hit him hard. . . . He has never made me suffer. However, I know that he has made my mother and our Sainted Mother Marie suffer." The hearing continued...
...judges are paid $20,000 to $50,000, but Chief Justice Taft receives only $15,000, and the Associate? Justices who serve with him get $500 a year less. Mr. Davis quoted John Marshall: " 'An ignorant, corrupt and de pendent judiciary is the worst affliction any people can suffer. No man who is inadequately paid can be independent in thought.' "If the present salaries are to be continued, judges should be required to take the oath of celibacy so as not to expose their dependents to the hardships which such salaries entail...
...OTHER POEMS-Conrad Aiken- Boni & Liveright ($2). Here are 21 short poems and one longer one, compounded of dreams, half-thoughts and the stinging lash of passion, running in and out of obscurity, now fading into drifting leaves. Some of them, including the major piece, "Priapus and the Pool," suffer grievously from obscurity. In such the supreme function of poetry seems nearly lost- the function of making thoughts clearer than ever words were meant to make them. The more enjoyable poems are the simpler: the richly oriental "And in the Hanging Gardens"; the ironic "The Wedding" (of Arachne with...