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Word: butcher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good die young," is a favorite, sardonic saying of General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquess of Tenerife, Grandee of Spain, long famed among U. S. citizens as "Butcher Weyler" because of his ruthless military governorship of Cuba, prime cause of the Spanish-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Weyler Well | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Madrid last week the doughty "Butcher," now aged 91, arose fully convalescent from a sickness during which Death had been expected hourly for weeks. "Pah!" growled he. "My doctors, my family had no cause for alarm. I had only pneumonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Weyler Well | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Bradford, Pa., Mrs. Bernice Case asked her husband for a cigaret. When he refused, she stabbed him with a butcher knife, had him taken to a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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