Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaker Longworth, Senator Harrison said: "He is approaching more nearly the tsarism of Speaker Reed than any speaker since those days. . . .* Is the Speaker praised . . . because his organization strangles and is now willing to kill the farm relief measure...
...answered her notice. She hired them both. Parks was the more stupid of the two, Manchester the harder. She insured Parks's life for $7,000, with a double indemnity clause in case he died by accident. Then she worked on young Manchester to take her gun and kill Parks. She promised Manchester $1,000 of the $14,000 they would realize. After some hesitation, and some difficulty luring Parks to a good spot, Manchester did his part of the bargain last week...
...inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot at the U. S. Navy's one and only big dirigible. Carpenter Merton Hankins, the lilliputian gunner, was arrested. Last week he was tried for assault with attempt to kill...
...kill his mother at her own pleadings, or to let a painful cancer kill her, was the problem put to one Richard Corbett, intelligent young Englishman. The two, since his father's death, had lived together in southern France. Last November Mrs. Corbett's cancer became unmanageable...
...Dangerous Woman (Paramount). When Adolph Zukor, president of Paramount Famous Lasky Corp., noticed the original title of this picture, The Woman Who Needed Killing, he called in advertising spreads which had cost a lot of money and renamed it himself. That any woman should need killing seemed to him an indictment of womanhood in general, perhaps of motherhood. Adolph Zukor would not stand for anything like that although he was probably forced to admit that Olga Baclanova, in this instance, acted badly. The wife of an Englishman in Africa, she flirted with her husband's friends and finally with...