Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order of ex-Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, Monarchists attended the 25th anniversary of the assassination of the late Empress Elizabeth, * celebrated in the Capueiner Church in Vienna. During the ceremony a detective arrested Count Hoying, President of the Austrian State (Monarchist) Party, charging him with attempting to kill Eckartsau, Executor of ex-Emperor Karl's estates. Count Hoying denied the charge, characterizing it as an attempt at political revenge. He admitted, however, that he had charged Eckartsau with "wilfully sabotaging" settlement of the Habsburg estates. Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, became the consort...
...Kill a Child...
...According to the Pasteur Institute, one hour's sunlight is sufficient to kill any known species of microbe.† Weight 170 to 200 tons each...
...landed at Valona and offered himself as King of Albania, saying: " I have toured the world many times, killing lions, tigers and hippopotami. I will kill your enemies just as willingly." He was forced by Germany and Austria to withdraw his offer. In the war he "offered his sword " to the Allies in turn, but without success. He even offered his steam yacht, the Mekong, to the French Government, but they refused it; the British Navy, however, accepted it. He turned his residence, the Château de Randan, into a hospital for wounded soldiers...
...might drive local newspapers out of business- much as large metropolitan department stores have treated neighborhood stores. On the other hand, aeroplane delivery would greatly alter the question of what news is worth printing. One of the San Francisco newspapers carried to New York bore in its headlines: BANDITS KILL POKER PLAYER; POSSES SCOUR MOUNTAINS FOR WOUNDED MAN; MRS. KERR FINED $10 FOR BATTERY OF WOMAN. Scandal may be useful for a national circulation, but " local stories" are not. If aeroplanes extend the range of newspaper circulation they may do away with "local news." But they have...