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...Right to Kill, a drama from the Russian, and Bunk of 1926, a semi-amateur revue, appeared last week at outlying theatres. Both were crude...
Bitterly was the marriage rued. The whole court was witness of her unhappiness. Bothwell disdained her openly, visited his former wife, was so cruel that she threatened kill herself. Her people and her nobles united against her; she fled Edinburgh with Bothwell. With Mary beside him, his forces and the enemy ultimately came face to face at Carberry Hill. She could make terms for herself, none for him. Bothwell's outnumbered troops wavered and muttered. He waited no longer; with a hasty word to her he mounted and fled, to die an exile, in prison...
...Look at the history of punishment. England used to kill a man for picking pockets. They held their executions on a high hill so all could see and feel the deterrent effect. But there were more pickpockets among the crowds surrounding the scaffold than at any other time...
...that the Government scheme may be reduced to a jumble of absurdities by the same process. With a heavy heart M. Doumer pronounced a sour dictum upon last week's performance of Les Folies Bourbon: It would seem that in this Chamber a majority can always be found to kill any proposal whatever...
...mushrooms of lascivious shape and noxious odor, which gave us shameful diseases in various forms." The Abbé des Noyers boomed: "That is a frightful lie!" The other male defendant, one Henri Froger, was called: "The Abbé afflicted me likewise with shameful diseases. . . . We did not mean to kill him but only to defend our Sainted Mother Marie, whose statue of the Blessed Virgin now weeps* night and day. . . . We await such punishment as may be meted out to us as martyrs. We have only done our duty." Mme. Robert, who had declared earlier that she was the last...