Word: bloodbath
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This brief caption, flashed on the screen, was all the warning U. S. cinemagoers had last week before the usually innocuous newsreel plunged them into such a bloodbath of visual horrors as few of them had ever imagined. Shown throughout the U. S. these were the first frankly gruesome newsreels of the Shanghai shambles to reach the U. S. Hundreds of feet of this hastily, dangerously made record had been ground out by cameramen under fire or within a few minutes after shellburst or bomb-explosion. They tell, as pitilessly as only the camera can, what war means...
...even children. Blessed be God who has converted the French princes to His cause! May He inspire their hearts to continue as they have begun!" When the good news reached Rome, the Pope held a solemn Mass of thanksgiving. A contemporary diplomat thus reported how Catherine emerged from the bloodbath she had ordered: "She looks ten years younger and gives me the impression of a person emerging from a grave illness or who had just escaped from some great danger." Once again-this-time she was 55- Catherine sat by the deathbed of a son who was also King...
...20th Century "Don Quixote" packed with the dynamite of "war babies" turning the guns of ridicule on the goosestepping, gun-toting generation which splashed through the biggest bloodbath in history-and emerged crying for more...