Word: killed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fritz Kreisler in Berlin received a letter: "I know your generous gifts. But I have never received a penny. I must have 20,000 marks, and unless I receive them I shall kill you on Tuesday...
...sets, because it seems impossible that a normal supply could create such a fiendish storm. Mr. Griffith doesn't content himself with a mere cyclone; he has to have three or four tornadoes going on at the same time. Of course when you have over half the cast to kill off at the end you might just as well blow them to pieces as drown them or burn them. We're beginning to wonder why a Griffith cyclone wasn't used in place of the Great Flood by whoever was in charge...
...magnificent Mercedes, to the fact that the Ford and Dodge Companies are using steel bodies. He declared that just as the old wooden Pullman cars have been discarded, so wooden automobile bodies will in a few years be obsolete. Said he: "It's the splinters that kill. . . . Steel laughs at shocks that demolish wood. . . . Smaller, lighter, more economical, better looking, longer lasting motor cars are coming...
...Under the iron rule of the proletarian dictatorship freedom still exists in Russia. Right here in Moscow, despite Red guards and secret police, freedom runs rampant, wild as wolves and as savage-a freedom anarchistic-free to rob, free to fight, free to kill, free (as needs often must) to starve...
...been private-or at any rate Professor Erskine chooses to summarize it in two sentences: "So they all intended well. But Paris saw Helen face to face." The story begins when the topless towers of Ilium were falling: Menelaus sword in hand storms into Helen's room to kill her, looks and exclaims: "Helen, it's time we went home...