Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard Corbett," said the presiding judge, grave in his white lace collar and black hat, "did your mother ask you to kill her? . . . It was you who coolly and deliberately took her life...
...were at a loss for a diagnosis. The symtoms were simple: nausea, constipation, a fever preceded by a chill. Then the parrot too lost appetite, moulted, became diarrhetic, died. The doctors examined him, pronounced his death due to psittachosis-parrot-disease. They warned parrot-owners that this infection would kill their pets and themselves as well. Parrots thus diseased must be segregated or killed. Health officials were surprised to find the case in Argentina. It is usually confined to more northern parts of South America, where parrots are plentiful
...Atlantic City, Patrolman Clifton Mann fired three shots at an injured dog. The first hit the right leg of one Clarence Beckett, railroad watchman. The second hit the dog, failed to kill it. The third hit the right leg of one Paul Robbins, coal and ice merchant. A motorcycle policeman arrived, shot...
...that you would have been guilty of propagating the fraudulent misrepresentations of fact, and refusing to mention the abandonment of such various and sundry accusations even by those making them. For instance, you published to the world my picture, as though I had undertaken to hire some scoundrel to kill a member of the State Legislature; and when, after hearing no testimony except that of the witnesses against me- even the anti-Long leaders themselves did not allow a vote to be taken on such a charge-you said nothing about it. Further, you pictured up a great Mardi Gras...
...Gimlet Eye") Butler, famed marine, recent drier-up Quantico, Va. (but not of Philadelphia, where his strongarm methods were disapproved). For two hours he told them what he thought of Prohibition: "The grossest piece of class legislation in the country's history . . . like using 16-in. guns to kill sparrows...