Word: clawing
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...cruelty and a quiet gusto for torture are not untypical of the Celestial race. Who has traversed China without seeing children play, unreproved, the game of cat tails. Two or more stray cats are caught, tied together by their extremities, hung over a convenient limb, and left to claw out each others' eyes and innards. Meanwhile the passing mandarin smiles and coolies stop to widen yellow grins. Thus loom the ingrained traits which made it possible, last week, for certain Chinese irregulars of heathen persuasion to massacre with fiendish cruelty the Roman Catholic natives who once populated Leiyang...
...believed by many economists to be vital to the commercial survival of Austria. It could be made unnecessary by moving the League to Vienna. But Germans want Anschluss, want to absorb Austria. Therefore Germany, with a Council Seat on the League, may be expected to fight tooth and claw any move to move the League...
Italy & Spain. Both these "constitutional monarchies" have relinquished the once democratic form of their parliaments and reduced to a mockery the prerogatives of their kings. Signer Benito Mussolini, as Dictator of Italy, and General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, his prototype in Spain, have now so claw-hooked their authority into the texture of law and politics that the only combative weapons left to their enemies are assassination and revolution. Both statesmen have successfully spurred their countrymen to strides and leaps in material progress. They are the fashion plates aped by all modern personal autocrats. Examples: President Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
...beasts take to marauding, he takes to hunting. Both his cunning and their savagery are depicted with such clarity, plausibility and genuineness that those fortunate enough to be in the audience can only marvel at the intrepidity of the photographers, and ponder how insolently the net prevails over the claw. The big scene shows a great herd of chang (elephants) being driven into a trap by fear of natives camouflaged as bushes...
...whooped as a great issue early in the campaign petered into insignificance before the polling began. A surprising apathy was likewise shown by the electorate toward Conservative promises of a high protective tariff and Liberal pledges of a low tariff for revenue only. An issue meet for tooth and claw was however discovered in the famed "Byng-King" incident...