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Word: kill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ferocious spirit. Hitherto, U. S. vessels have sighted rum runners scurrying to shore, have urged them to stop, have even fired a wild shot. But the rum launches, faster than the average picket boat, have simply scurried on. The Coast Guard seamen have not been shooting with intent to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The War | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...Nature won't I'll kill this Turnus pest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/14/1925 | See Source »

...plot concerns the troubles of the Halpin family. Coiny Halpin has sworn to kill Christie Barrett because Barrett's father kill his brother years ago; Ellen Halpin, his sister-in-law, is afraid her daughter wants to marry Christie--afraid not because of factional hate, but because Christie was her own childhood sweetheart. After many complications provided by Padna Collins, an Irish miser everything ends happily. Ellen marries Christie, Norah explains that she had long ago decided to become a nun, Corny Shakes hands with Christie, and the whole lot sails for Australia leaving Padna behind alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/17/1925 | See Source »

...last they chill me, kill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/15/1925 | See Source »

particularly prominent motion-picture actresses, Barbara La Marr probably least deserves her distinction. Possibly she did once; a good many feet of film have gone through the camera since then. Here she is a siren of European capitals who marches about in white satin with a tall wand. Men kill themselves. She tries to kill herself. The maid shifted the poison, making it a "happy" ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 13, 1925 | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

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