Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beside Sir William Orpen, R.A., Paddy's pig is a Spaniard. Though he has had no old ones, this is a book about his young days, before they shot to kill in Dublin and before England knighted Orpen for mocking some of her greatest lords in sharp colors with an impish brush. It was a time of talent in Dublin, with George Moore mooning about, John M. Synge writing his plays, James Stephens his poetry, quiet young James Joyce his sketches and energetic Sir Hugh Lane slaving to make Dublin a European Art centre...
...runners as Ellsworth, "Red" Haggerty, Byron Cutcheon. To begin with, Lowe was tired. He had already spent himself to take the half-mile in the fast time of 1:53 2/5; moreover, it was obvious that the U. S. combination had passed a word around in the locker-room: "Kill off Lowe." First Cutcheon set a parching pace. Lowe seemed tired. Haggerty replaced Cutcheon, looking over his shoulder at the dark-haired, the Arab-skinned Lowe, three yards behind. So they ran until 150 yards from the end. Then Lowe, as if he had strapped the wind to his ankles...
Peking. Students attempted, not without considerable success, to foment a strike of all Chinese workers and to enforce a boycott of the British and Japanese (TIME, June 8, 15). Demonstrations were held. Schools and shops were closed. Dead students were carried in parades with the inscription: "Killed by the English in Shanghai.* " Cries of "Kill the British!" "Kill the Japanese!" were heard frequently. Part of the native press supported the students and the Government's policy favored them. Subscription lists were opened and bankers promised aid. After the killings at Hankow (see below), the students demanded that the Government...
...denouncing the Yünnanese generals for insubordination, dismissed them. War between the two factions began. Peking. A large students' proces- sion was the only open manifestation of popular sympathy at Peking. The students paraded the streets shouting: "Down with imperialism!" "Down with the religion of Jesus!" "Kill all British and Japanese!" The Chinese Government addressed a note to the representatives of the Foreign Powers in Peking protesting against the shooting of Chinese rioters in Shanghai. The Powers answered that responsibility lay with the rioters and not with the authorities of foreign concessions at Shanghai. The Chinese note...
...Rector's pigsty, he felt that his past was coming back to choke him. Belle, outraged by her husband's unfaithfulness, conducted Daniel to a lodging house in Newhaven. He realized that it was anger that had made her surrender herself. She expected him, that night, to kill the last of her love for Ernley. In the morning, she would wake up empty of love, a wanton again. Daniel Shearer sat by the window, wrestled all night with his soul. He was, he realized at last, the kind of man whom women sacrificed. Aghast at her angry love...