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...between a 19-year-old student, Sergei Slovochotov, and his fiancee, Zina Jukova, 16, in the presence of half a dozen student friends. "There is no limit to freedom of the will!" raged Student Slovo-chotov, "I am prepared to do anything at any time!" "Prepared to commit murder-?" taunted the petite, personable Zina. "You couldn't kill me, could you Sergei?" "Yes, I swear it! If anyone here will sign a document saying I am not to blame, I am ready to kill that person without hesitation, drink two bottles of beer afterwards, go to the cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Absorbing Question | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...Thou shalt not commit adultery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Commandments | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

College men who have been taught that the greatest sacrifice one can commit in the sacred precincts of Widener is to light a match or steal a book must recognize in the probable innovation of the Business School Library a sign of the times. It will be the first time smoking has ever been permitted in any college library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Library Is First to Permit Smoking--Breaks Ancient Tradition Dating Back to Sir Walter Raleigh's Time | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

...Gould, meanwhile, remains an active member of the Senate. His lawyers maintain that, even if he did commit bribery in Canada in 1912, he ought not to be ousted from the U. S. Senate since he was legally elected in 1926. In any case, it was the New Brunswick Premiers, not Mr. Gould, who had violated political trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Yankee Story | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...three men at Charlestown, Mass., then took a train for Sing Sing. It was late when he arrived. The condemned men lay awake in their uncurtained cells in the harshly lighted, white-painted death-house. A Negro was singing a song. That afternoon the black man had tried to commit suicide with a rope made of four towels knotted together. They took the towels away from him, draped a fresh one over his shoulders. As they led him to the death chamber a voice said, "If I could get hold of that towel around your neck, buddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Executioner | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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