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Word: killings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senatorial inquisition. Senator Caraway of Arkansas had already framed a bill requiring all lobbyists to register upon arrival and state their business. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts introduced another such measure last week and the defeated Inquisitors determined to look back into the power lobby to see just who did kill Cock Robin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...RACKET-Gunmen, cops, reporters, a cabaret girl, kick and scream as Chicago shoots to kill (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...this form of religion. It was observed that ". . . there is much atheism in the church," that, "there is an increasing number of clergymen who conduct 'services' at which no prayers are offered and where no reference is made to God. ..." A final paragraph expounded the slogan, "Kill the Beast," with which the cover of the Annual Report was conspicuously adorned: "The hour to overthrow the Church has come. Arise, ye prisoners of the priest! Strike down the God superstition! The Clergy are powerful because you are on your knees. Stand up! ... Be men! . . . Prepare for the oncoming religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A. A. A. A. | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...nasty trick of war, a "big Wop from Peoria," Tony Rickey, became the hero of this story. In boyhood, he was a bootblack. In youth, he founded the National Bug-Killer Co., which rented to thousands of farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parachute | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...lady herself makes big money in musical comedy. In part, she owes her success to an intent but unscrupulous young man-about-town who has stolen the money to pay for her theatrical ventures. Infuriated when she refuses to marry him, this suitor goes to the South Seas to kill his rival but remains to convince him that the lady has deceived both of them in her greed for gold. Accordingly they decoy her to the South Seas that they may punish her for so doing. Eventually, when her innocence becomes apparent, her first inamorata punches the young man-about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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