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Word: killed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stoutly answered Madame Schwimmer, "but I would warn the soldier. I would not kill a man, even if he tried to kill me." She added that she might fling herself upon the enemy and try to disarm him. "That's all," said Judge Carpenter. "Petition denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Petition Denied | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...dangerous. Bumping the rail he could not see, the horse pulled a blinker over the other eye. In total darkness he smashed terrified through the rail, turned somersaults, crashed through both rails on the backstretch. His jockey was thrown, badly bruised. Experts felt it lucky Santrock did not kill both himself and jockey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blind Racehorse | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Congress still adjourned, transoceanic airplanes were being trundled into hangars, bootleggers were plying their trade without undue interference, the waters of the world were a quiet silver and the same winds that had pounced upon a great city now mewed like gentle cats. But three U. S. mothers had killed or tried to kill their children. Three is a crowd, four is an epidemic. Grubby, cutthroat editors, eager to mountainize and multiply such small and terrible tragedies, chewed thick pencils, chuckled, thumped their desks, squealed: "If only we get another like that ... if only there was one more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Epidemic Averted | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...death as they approach it. The result of the mind's bouncing, like a tennis ball, between the racquets of Life and Death, is usually expressed completely, inarticulately, paradoxically, in the trite phrase: "What does it all matter?" Having reached this point, normal people have breakfast; abnormal people kill themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...putting over the gags pretty well, and this woman was roaring and screaming up there, I said to Marilyn. By goash! I'll kill off that old fatty" So I kept it an and fussed around with my hands and feet, and she'd split for sure. Then after the show when the spot man was down backstage, he came around and said. Hey Jack did you hear that woman upstairs? 'Oh yes' I said, kinds modest, you know, because I didn't want to seem stuck-up over my line. "Well you know what it was about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jack Donahue Walks About Disguised as Drug Store - Tells of How Heat Gave Effect of Humor With Lady in Gallery | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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