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* For English boys, the usual test is the legality of the execution of bewhiskered Charles I.
Criminals condemned to Death would be offered, under the law, a free choice between execution and inoculation with cancer. Twelve years would be the legal period of vivisection, and if, at the end of that time, the patient survived and had been cured he or she would return to society...
Four days later the prestige of the 0. G. P. U. was further upheld by the execution of five of the engineers recently sentenced to Death at the great Shahkta Trial (TIME, July 2; July 16). "Cheka" agents had assembled the evidence on which they were convicted. Soldiers attached to...
The "damages" which would scarcely be recognized as such by public opinion, arise from the fact that Nemesis Rasputin was assassinated by gentlemen of the highest Russian aristocracy at the palace of Prince Felix Youssoupov in Petrograd, Dec. 15, 1916. Among Russians of the old regime Prince Youssoupov is honored...
Dawn has appeared in the U. S., thoroughly emasculated. A passive audience, brief applause greeted the first Manhattan showing of the British film that had put Parliament in a furor (TIME, March 12). The climactic scene-the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell-has been practically killed. Sybil Thorndike, who plays...