Word: treasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will get it back at the legal rate of interest, compound interest and a bonus. . . . When it is settled not even the bars of the penitentiary will hold me, for the powers-that-be recognize no bars. I can't tell who they are. That would be high treason...
...these top sergeants of a force fundamentally dedicated to class warfare. Plenty of them had been under fire. There was chunky Bill Blizzard, a delegate from West Virginia who took part in the famed Mingo March of 1921 which brought out the U. S. Army and ended in a treason trial in the same Charles Town, W. Va. courthouse where John Brown was found guilty. There was Powers Hapgood from Illinois, nephew of oldtime liberal Editor Norman Hapgood. He had worked his way around the world in coal mines, had been fired on for distributing handbills in Pennsylvania...
...author is obviously out of patience with the system as it now operates. Every action on her part is written of as though it were a test case. There was delay in getting her furniture from some officials who had commandeered it when her husband was suspected of treason but even in this country we feel fortunate to get anything from a government official in a day and a half which is as long as her transaction required. The girls she taught had no idea of morals and lacked even the elementary principles of scholarship. While the system may rightfully...
...story begins in the reign of James II, one of England's best-hated kings. When a young doctor named Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) is found treating a wounded rebel, he is summarily convicted of treason, sent to Jamaica to be sold into slavery with a group of other James-haters. The island's No. 1 slave-buyer is Colonel Bishop (Lionel At will), a savage sugar plantation owner who runs his cumbrous mill with slave power. Peter Blood is promoted from the mill when he successfully treats the governor's gout, but he does not forget...
That technicality made it necessary for de Clifford to be tried by the House of Lords, since under the Magna Charta a peer indicted for treason or a felony which includes homicide, rape, bigamy, burglary, robbery, larceny, counterfeiting and forgery must be tried by his peers. Such a trial costs thousands of dollars and, since the county in which the crime is supposed to have taken place must pay, a tradition exists for piling on every expense that can be thought of. For last week's trial, which cost some $50,000, it was not enough to install...