Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office. I remained in the lobby. Presently he came out. With ill-disguised rage he threw into my hands 20 lire and some centesimi, saying: 'Here is your money and it is stolen.' I remained as though made of stone. What was I to do to him? Kill him? What did I do to him? Nothing. Why? Because I was hungry and had no shoes. I had worn a pair of light boots to pieces on the building stones which had lacerated both my hands and the soles of my feet. Almost barefooted I went to an Italian...
...Preventing the Children of Poor People from being a Burden to their Parents or the Country. Swift's proposal was to fatten the children and then eat them. Swift wrote in irony. The Prohibition Bureau is in earnest. The goal of its research is a poison which will kill...
...marriage annulled . . ." the pencil moved scratchily over the cheap paper. Two weeks ago this girl, one Gladys Hines, 19, white, married William Idi, a young Japanese waiter. She was not very pretty; she wanted a man; Waiter Idi was all right, as Japs went. ". . . I'll kill myself. Father says that if I married a Japanese, he would send both of us to jail. I don't want you to go to jail, sweetheart, and would die by inches if I had to go. . . . The girl went out and left the letter there. In a little while...
...give a word or two of hasty advice. Six minor bills (such as "an act to reinstate Joe Burton Coursey in the West Point Military Academy") aroused the President's suspicion, so he decided to take them home. Failure to sign these six within ten days will kill them by "pocket veto...
...that her match with steady Mrs. Godfree went in waves. First Mrs. Godfree won a set, then the Señorita, with blazing eyes and a hail of placements, took the second. She was tired after that; she would not start for a ball unless she thought she could kill it; stroke by stroke Mrs. Godfree gathered in the championship of England...