Word: treasonably
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There was an attainder, a trial for high treason, a sentence of death. The kindness of the Lieutenant of the Tower was acknowledged, reproachfully, perhaps, by the gift of an inscribed copy of the English Prayer Book. With this as a last act, Lady Jane drew near the scaffold on Tower Hill, beholding on route the gory body of her husband, who had preceded her to the block. The execution took place, amidst popular lamentations, on the twelfth of February...
...goes to Maxim's for a farewell debauch, makes love to a cocotte who turns out to be the widow in disguise. Meeting her again at a diplomatic reception, he finds it impossible to convince her that his affection is sincere until he has been convicted of treason for failing in his mission...
Extremely proud of the new Nazi "People's Court" for trying treason cases is its twinkly-eyed President, genial Dr. Fritz Rehn. From the Court foreign correspondents are barred. "They don't understand!" tolerantly exclaims Dr. Rehn, who last week was happy to have as his guest a prominent U. S. attorney who would surely understand. With Nazi guards clicking out salutes, President Rehn showed William Ormonde Thompson, Clarence Darrow's onetime partner, all over the Court, now handsomely installed in Prussia's onetime Diet Building. He explained to Mr. Thompson how much better Nazi justice is than the justice...
...that made me I'd do anything for him that did not involve my duty to the farmers. Alabama's Senator Black: This man . . . has brains. He has been charged with it. ... He has dared to raise his voice in favor of old age pensions. . . . Treason! Treason! Let him be taken to the stake! Let the inquisition be turned upon him! Virginia's Senator Byrd: I contend that he has committed illegal acts which he is asking the Congress of the U. S. to ratify. ... It is inconceivable to me that a man can make a speech...
...strength of this testimony Epstein and Ziegler were sentenced to decapitation. No effort was made to hush up the fact that Hero Horst Wessel, far from disliking women as has been suggested, kept a buxom mistress, Lucie of the Alexanderplatz. Also cleaned up last week was the biggest high treason trial ever held in Germany, with no defendants. German papers reported the trial only on the first day. After that Communist defendants by the dozens began retracting confessions of treason which they dared to accuse Nazis of having exacted from them with pistols, bludgeons and castor oil. A comparative fizzle...