Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murderer must find a victim, throttle it. The victim screams. After the scream the murderer may take only four steps, other players must stand in their tracks. All players must answer the Prosecutor truthfully except the murderer who may lie freely. The Prosecutor may openly accuse only one suspect...
When one considers these minute cameos with reference to Mr. Duff Cooper's production, he is led to suspect that the inspiration which fostered the writing of this book was very similar to that which would lead an elephant into a drawing room. The shoddy jacket blatantly insistent upon the literary value of sex and gambling is, of course, designedly misleading. But there is little relief between the covers. In his three hundred and fifty pages, Mr. Cooper apparently sets out to give a history of France over a period of eighty years, and to place incidental emphasis on Talleyrand...
...that will not restrain us!" he roared in a Berlin speech which timid Press censors first suppressed. "Whatever happens we will take the course that is necessary to save Germany from ruin!" ¶ In Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) 24 provincial governors and police chiefs "suspect of Republicanism" were ousted and replaced by reactionary government supporters such as Nazi Rear Admiral Magnus von Levetzow, appointed Chief of Police of Berlin. Next day Prussian police started confiscating the passports of such famed Liberals & Pacifists as Hellmuth von Gerlach, thus cooping them in Germany as Dictators Stalin & Mussolini coop...
...France, since Visigoths vanished into the sixth century donjons of Clovis, a French suspect was looked on as guilty until proved innocent. Hence, by neat Gallic logic, he must be locked up until the state gets around to trying him. Last week French criminal procedure was quietly revolutionized with a new law providing that henceforth all arrested suspects must be provisionally released within five days unless 1) convicted, 2) proved vagrants, or 3) accused of a crime punishable by a term of more than two years. Appalled were police, prosecutors and feudal-minded deputies of the Right; jubilant...
...restored to their proper function of teaching only the elements, only the three R's. Can it be done? Says H. L. M.: "Any publicist bold enough to flout them would be posted instantly as an agent of the Pope, if not, indeed, of Beelzebub. . . . The remedy, I suspect, is in the hands of God alone. . . . I begin to see significant signs. ... In dozens of American communities, large and small, they [gogues] are now being paid in hopes alone: there is no money left in the treasury to meet their salaries. Perhaps the only way out lies in that...