Word: barbarian
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...four. They include the King of Altura: his son Manfredo: a former Prince of Altura: and the wife of Manfredo. The inhabitants of the province of Altura complete an ensemble whose setting is in the tenth century, and the place is a remote castle of Italy, after a barbarian invasion which had been led, by the son of the king...
...crime is a spiritual slaughter of a highly charged barbarian who is being educated in the current unworldliness of a wealthy home. She seeks solace from the daily burden of propriety with a drink-dishevelled author. Then she dreams. She dreams in a modernistic manner, reminiscent of the weird episodes in The Adding Machine...
History. Not during 6,000 years of history had Egypt claimed suzerainty over the Sudan until the year 1820 when Mehemet Ali, "barbarian of genius," and Sultan Mahmud II of Turkey succeeded in conquering the country. But even this victory was only nominal; for the Turko-Egyptians were never able to assert complete mastery over the country which they contemptuously called Bilad-es-Sudan, "country of the blacks." In 1882 came the revolt of the Mahdi, "Guide of Islam," aimed specifically at the Egyptians whose corrupt practices were thoroughly despised. The regime of the Mahdi was later replaced by that...
Bernstein vs. Barbarian. At the New York Velodrome, the junior lightweight championship changed ownership. Spindly Jack Bernstein lost it after 12 brisk rounds with one Sid Barbarian of Detroit...
Monsignor Constantine Butchkavitch, Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, was murdered by order of a barbarian court. These tidings have resounded throughout the civilized world; in some cases pogroms have been carried out against the Jews, who are held fallaciously by anger-blind people to be responsible for the prelate's death for no other reason than that the arch-fiends at Moscow are said to be Jews-a contention not entirely true. In other countries where the common rudiments of law and order are preserved more by instinct than by compulsion, many millions of people...