Word: executioner
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The girl she defeated in the finals was Lilli de Alvarez, graceful, excitable, spectacular. Disregarding the convention which calls upon the virgin daughters of Spain to spend their evenings peeping from a barred window at the cloaked shape of a lover in the doorway opposite, Señorita Alvarez managed...
In 1920 he was rescued from a sentence of execution arising out of his unquenchable revolutionary activities by a popular demonstration without its like in the history of Peru. His official "coronation" at Lima as "Poet of America" followed amid a general public festival. President Leguia, "the bantam Mussolini of...
Herr Luther chances to possess more ability than wit. His enemies succeeded in making it appear that the Cabinet had taken a momentous decision detrimental to the Reich without consulting the Reichstag. Flustered, Herr Luther attempted to evade collision by announcing that he would postpone the execution of the flag...
The Blind Goddess. Probably every cinema sets out more or less seriously to accomplish its purpose. Authors, directors 'and actors must believe in their product. The fact that this product is so often ridiculous does not alter matters. If a film does not prosper they can say it was far...
The adverse decision of the Connecticut judiciary board in regard to the Chapman appeal for a new trial foreshadows the defeat of one of the most prolonged and stubborn defenses which has ever featured a criminal trial. Since the newly-discovered evidence on which the appeal was based had been...