Word: killer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well known to "Texas" Guinan, famed proprietress. Also, it is known, most unpleasantly known, to Harry K. Thaw. That is why the other patrons of the club gasped when they saw the waiter place Mr. Payne at the table next Mr. Thaw's, back to back with the killer. In every mind beat a terrible question. Thaw, everyone knew, had shot Stanford White. If he discovered Editor Payne, his enemy, the man who had publicly vilified him, scraping elbows with him in a night club, what then...
...Chester Noyes Greenough" was responsible. First he caught one of the chameleons. "Eva", and then he reached one of the canaries, which died unnamed. Most of the other pets were shipped away, out of reach of the killer. But Chester was not even punished, for his owners have not yet discovered what will punish his irrepressible spirit...
...December, George F. Willett, banker of Norwood, Mass., sued the Boston banking firms of F. S. Moseley & Co., Killer, Peabody & Co. and Robert F. Herrick, Boston lawyer, for $15,000,000. He claimed that these had conspired to rob his onetime firm, Willett, Sears & Co., of the control of two felt companies. After the longest superior court trial on record (184 days), he got a verdict of $10,534,109.00-the largest judgment ever awarded by a court to an individual (TIME, Dec. 29). When he received news that he had won back this fortune, Mr. Willett...
Thus embellished, the bull is now ready for the espada, or matador; the swordsman, the killer, the hero of the day. It is to this final role that the apprentice aspires. Sometimes, through sheer braggadocio, the merest man may spring to fame overnight by leaping down into an arena if some emergency should arise at this crucial juncture of a fight. That is seldom seen, however...
Last week he died?His Eminence Michael Cardinal Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of all Ireland, 114th successor of St. Patrick, the serpent-killer. He was the only Primate to have been made a Cardinal in Ireland's 1,500 years of Christian history...