Word: eaten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important killing was that of General Eustoquio Gómez, a cousin of the old Dictator, who as Governor of the State of Carabobo gained a reputation that smelled to high heaven for torturing political prisoners. Under his orders at least three men were hanged in chains to be eaten by vultures. Attempting an unplanned coup d'é in Caracas, General Gómez was shot down like...
...world's largest exporter of horses destined to be eaten by others, the British Empire also leads in pointing out the iniquities of the horsemeat industry as conducted abroad after the beasts have been bought and paid for. Three years ago a staff artist for the Illustrated London News produced a classic series of anti-horse-eating sketches (see cut). In Paris humanity to horses about to be eaten is preached by L'Intransigeant, striven for by La Ligue Française pour la Protection du Cheval. Main reform urged is to kill the old nags where they...
...until six months after July 31. One British judge having ruled against Schiaparelli earlier, the Court of Appeals acted not quite fast enough to keep Lady Alice's gown from being the subject of a lawsuit during the actual ceremony, did manage while the wedding breakfast was being eaten to hush Schiaparelli for a fewr days by "reserving judgment." Death claimed the bride's father few weeks ago, transformed the nuptials from a national pageant at Westminster Abbey into a "delightful private affair'' in the chapel of Buckingham Palace. H. R. H. slipped a ring...
Swart, bulky United Air Lines Pilot Roy H. Warner, who stayed with his burning plane even after his clothing was ignited on a 1930 flight from. Boise, Idaho, to Pasco, Wash., managed to land with one wing completely eaten away, saved his mail before an explosion demolished the wreck...
...world's heaviest drinkers, inhabiting the tough and fancy speakeasies of Manhattan, where she awed bartenders by the amount she drank. Despairing, weary, intuitive, this 22-year-old girl went on sprees when she "drank rye and water all day long. When she remembered that she had not eaten for 24 hours she would go to a place where the eggs were to be trusted, order a raw egg, break it in an Old Fashioned cocktail tumbler, shoot Angostura bitters into it, and gulp the result." Because she was lovely, and because she had a tormented understanding...