Word: drowne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it died. The Associated Press reported that the polar bears had murdered their denmate, that the other animals had "snarled and howled, leaping and tearing at the kill." Exclaimed Director Heller: "The cubs were ducking the black bear as boys do in a swimming hole. Sometimes the boys drown. . . . We are not going to start shooting animals on suspicion that they are killers...
...king of Alvonia (Mickey Rooney) twice: first when the horses of the Wild West stage coach, in which he is getting a free ride, run away; next when the bad prime minister of Alvonia has imprisoned the king and his faithful tutor in a dungeon and is planning to drown them both by flooding the dungeon. A weird but not entirely indigestible mixture of bucking bronchos and court romance, My Pal, the King is plainly intended for children...
...Years later, his mother and father dead, Barry met Gordon's daughter Meredith. Not knowing they were half-brother and sister they fell in love. Poet Robinson Jeffers would have carried them on to incest. Author Benét stops things just in time, lets Barry drown...
...African jungle. Spears flash through the murk, an elephant trumpets. Tom-tom-tom goes the tom-tom. The Voodoo Man warns his people, "All the gods are angry, all the clouds hang low." There must be human sacrifice. The Girl is chosen. As she walks into the stream to drown, the Boy creeps to the bank, plays on his flute. The Voodoo Man has him dragged away. A sacrificial procession. Tom-tom-tom. The Boy struggles in his bonds, the Voodoo Man leaps at him knife in hand. Comes a slave caravan, the Boy & Girl are chained together, carried away...
...Eleazar takes an unexpected turn. Hopeless of his brother's wife, Eleazar transfers his unholy zeal to an orphan, Purity, whom Anne has adopted on the Mayflower. His passion, countering the similar passion of John's son, David, is ended only when he violates the maid, leaves her to drown herself...