Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Congratulations on the happy thought, the speedy execution of the Perpetual subscription idea. Timeless and for all time it is entirely TIME-like. Enclosed is my order; it will undoubtedly be but one of many.
Again I congratulate you on the selection and execution of the subject representing the adornment of the cover of TIME for last week. Mr. Adams is a personable gentleman with attractive features and the little touch of color in the picture enhanced the effect.
*There is excellent historical precedent for the "rump" designation. In 1648, when the English Parliament was about to move for the execution of Charles I, the only way to get a majority for such a proceeding was to expel many a moderate member who did not wish for the King...
...relic deemed unworthy of modern, mechanistic Nationalist China. A Chinese execution is always something of a local holiday. The victim is allowed to drink his fill of rice wine until blissfully intoxicated. At the execution grounds, he kneels down, head thrust forward. Under the old regime it was the executioner's duty to take a two-handed, heavy-bladed sword, and from a comfortable stance remove the prisoner's head with one well-timed full swing. In the new order of things, prisoners' brains will be blown out by pressing a revolver barrel firmly against the back...
When one honorable Chinese statesman guarantees the safety of another, then if the latter is straightway executed, it is comme il faut for the embarrassed guarantor to commit suicide, and soon. Embarrassed in the Chinese capital of Nanking, last week, was elder statesman Wu Tze-hui. People kept telling him...