Word: kamelia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said the deputies had fired a tear-gas bomb through his parlor window, shot down his wife when she rushed out with hands raised. Then, he admitted, he had gone back to get his old Army revolver, but it had jammed when he tried to fire it. His daughter Kamelia had fired some shots later, but she was only trying to kill herself as she knelt by her dying mother...
...chosen words the editor's reaction to N. R. A. and all that; the second says a few words on the Slav Utopia (Mencken's phrase for Red Russia) which should be prescribed reading to every member of the Harvard Socialist-Liberal-Club-Students'-League Knights-of-the-White-Kamelia organization. Further than this there is not hide nor hair of H. L. to be found, and this commentator believes that the man should be told by his best friend, G. J. Nathan perhaps, that it is time for Mr. Mencken to come to the aid of his country, even...