Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grain. Faithful Nephew Caspar Maillol undertook to manufacture drawing paper for his uncle and friends by a like process. It is expensive, not on the public market. The only other drawing paper that Aristide Maillol finds fit to use is the very cheap soft yellow wrapping paper that the butcher of Banyuls uses for his meat...
...officially suspected of the murders of his common law wife Marion Miller, her two pet dogs, and of John ("Dingbat") O'Berta, Sam Malaga, Spot Butcher, George Meighan, William Dickman, James Quigley, Thaddeus Fancher, Frank Cochrane. Famed was his duel with gunmen in the German Deaconess Hospital while he lay with his leg in a cast...
...Langum quietly made his way to the pumphouse, unlocked the door. His flashlight glittered on a pair of scissors. The Mayor snipped. Next day St. Charles's garter snake was fed milk in a corner of the pumphouse, later exhibited in a jar in the window of a butcher shop. On the jar was a sign: O LORD. PLEASE HELP ME TO KEEP MY NOSE OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS...
...which President McKinley was called "a pothouse politician, catering to the rabble," Rubens published the letter, forced de Lôme's resignation. Rubens thinks the Maine was blown up by the Spaniards, admits it was probably not "an official act," but suspects that the disgruntled Spanish General "Butcher" Weyler hoped it would happen...
...season: "I am going to make the Spanish columns move, move constantly; and I count upon my three important allies, June, July and August." The Spanish answer to guerrilla tactics, says Rubens, was atrocities, of which he presents some gruesome photographs in evidence. General Weyler won his nickname of "Butcher" by his order outlawing all Cubans found outside the Spanish lines, shooting them as rebels. Those within the lines (reconcentrados), says Rubens, were allowed to starve: "at least 200,000" died that...