Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...next three centuries, Nolasque's followers freed 300,000 more prisoners, mostly from Islamic dungeons and mostly by voluntary substitution. One Mercedarian, Raymond de Blanez, was beheaded by the Moors at Granada in substitution for a condemned prisoner. Later the Mercedarians declined; by 19th Century's end, the order had less than 30 adherents. In 1918 it was reorganized to establish foreign missions. Today it has a membership of some...
...Author Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep), master of the hard-guy school of crime fiction, openly sneered (in the Saturday Review of Literature) at those who prefer the too-too refined type of whodunit ("That charming Mrs. Jones-whoever would have thought she would cut off her husband's head with a meat saw? And such a handsome...
...Binaggio's funeral, before the cortege departed for St. Mary's Cemetery, something more needed saying. The Rev. Raymond Jackson, vice-chancellor of the Kansas City Roman Catholic Diocese, stepped forward and read an official statement to set Catholics and non-Catholics straight on why his church had seen fit to give a Christian burial to a notorious hoodlum...
...serial that was improbable even by whodunit standards. The story, called The Ptomaine Canary, tells how a strapping Met soprano with ambitions as a detective-story writer tries to speed her literary success by drugging such established literary rivals as Erie Stanley Gardner, John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler: she lures them into accepting dope-soaked birdseed held out to them by her trained canary, Galli-Curci. The soprano gets in trouble when one of her less celebrated victims unexpectedly dies. Despite its over-cute plot and slapdash style, the tale could count on plenty of readers, since...
...Justice Raymond S. Wilkins '15, of the Supreme-Court of Massachusetts, was elected president of the Harvard Law School Association of Massachusetts last night at an organizational meeting at the Harvard Club of Boston...