Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expressman named Joseph Blackman was found murdered in sleep, his head hacked. A bloody hatchet lay near the house...
...Harold Stribling woke up in the night. The light was on. A young Negro was in the room, clutching a hatchet. Mrs. Stribling's husband, a powerful man, lay dying in the bed, his head mangled. The Negro chopped at Mrs. Stribling, gashed her over the eye. She begged for mercy. "Well, then, go and wash your face," he said. He went with her, washed his hands. He asked to see her baby and stood over its crib for several minutes. Like a mother partridge playing broken-wing, she begged him to leave the house with her. He took...
...nonentity which a constitutional monarch must assume. Nonetheless it is positively known that Lord Kitchener and other British commanders during the War several times modified their plans in accordance with the advice of George V. Before the War at least one paramount decision was taken by the crowned head alone. The situation was that the House of Lords persisted in vetoing bills designed to reduce its power which were repeatedly passed by the Commons. The only way to break the Lords' veto was for the King to appoint (or threaten to appoint) sufficient new Peers pledged to pass...
...slowly mounted the rostrum and then stood mopping his bald head, amid the rattle of handclaps and the roar of "Hoch! Hoch! HOCH!" Dr. Stresemann seemed paler than usual but otherwise utterly "the typical German," plump, correct and full of earnest energy. He, the smart son of a rich brewer, is the great Foreign Minister who has held office while eight German cabinets have fallen, and his ailing kidneys are those which have been of vital interest to all Europe for half a year...
...acting left little illusion. Nor could Giovanni Martinelli forget he was a tenor for the sake of the bellcaster. Dramatically it was Baritone Giuseppe de Luca in a minor role who served best. As Nickelmann he never once stepped out of the well, just poked up his moss-covered head, beat his webbed hands against the side. Yet when with a "Brekekekex" he lost Rautendelein, the audience was sorrier than it ever was for Heinrich. And it was happier for the "Brekekekex" that won her back than for any of her flawless cadenzas...