Word: killed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story tells of a shoddy confectioner of Bagdad, how he blocked the plot of the King of the Beggars to kill the Calif, rose to a great position in the State, fell because he could not countenance the Calif's cruelty to the captured Beggar King and left Bagdad behind him to make the Golden Journey to Samarkand...
...Kill him! Kill the umpire;" shouted someone on the stand...
...sick of Casey, now. I could kill him sometimes. I have done him so often that it has become part of my physical machine and my mind wanders anywhere while I am doing it. Then I wake up, forget where I am, and am in a hole. I have Casey miss that ball six or seven times, and I have had him miss it only once. It never makes any difference to the crowd...
...contributed several thousands of dollars to a murder plot against Lenin, Trotzky and other Bolsheviki. He told of his disagreement with Lenin?how he had advocated murder and Lenin had advocated the organization of the proletariat to oust the Tsar from his throne. He told of a plot to kill Rakovsky (now Charge d'Affaires in Great Britain), and Foreign Minister Tchitcherin in Berlin as they returned from the Genoa Conference in 1922. He told of many more interesting things...
...Gale, novelist, poet, playwright, always comes to my mind when a discussion of pacificism arises, because the accomplishment of World Peace with her is so impassioned a crusade. She is the sort of person who does not eat meat or wear furs because she believes it is wrong to kill animals for the luxury of mankind. I should like to have her meet Prof. Grindell-Matthews, famed inventor of the death-ray (TIME, Apr. 21, SCIENCE) as I met him the other morning, and to see the motion picture of his experiments. What would she have...