Word: killed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There 60-year-old Bluebeard Drat said to his police guards, "Kill me right away, don't bother me with questions about women...
Something about a Barbe Bleu fires the emotions of Frenchmen. Men marry women and kill them for their wealth in every land; but in France a Barbe Bleu is news. Last week was bluebeard week at Marseilles, the chief and most casually immoral port city of France, and a famed stockade for transient White Slavers...
...Should the President "pocket'' a bill and do nothing for ten days, the bill, if Congress is still sitting, becomes law. But should Congress adjourn within ten days of a bill's passage, the President can kill the bill by doing nothing...
...Mussolini. Diplomats deemed the swiftness with which satisfaction was demanded and given virtually a record. As night fell over the stones and spires of Innsbruck, the slumbers of gruff Governor Stumpf were interrupted by indignant student-patriots who assembled and shouted: "Down with our cowardly Government! It seeks to kill national pride!" Crestfallen Austrians lamented that they, defeated & disarmed, must eat Italian crow...
...unreal; to capture the unicorn, one must first capture a virgin and induce her to sit still upon the ground. The unicorn, attracted by a purity akin to his own, might come and lay his shaggy, frightened head upon her lap. Then hunters might come up and kill him with their spears. In the legends written in ancient bestiaries only two hunters pursued the timid freak: one of these was Gabriel and the other was his Lord. The seven virtues were their hounds...