Word: killings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worst but not daring to learn it, suffers all the tortures of the jealous husband, until, in a dramatic scene at a rehearsal of his play his uncertainty abruptly comes to an end. In the third act, he returns half-crazed after a sojourn of several days, to kill his wife and her fat lover. But he lacks-the courage or strength to shoot them in cold blood and ends by shooting himself...
...dilemma which may become real at any time--how are the League and the Monroe Doctrine to be reconciled? Many statesmen feel that the League without the United States is doomed to almost certain failure so it may be fairly said that the existence of the League threatens to kill the Monroe Doctrine. This is a situation which the admirers of our "splendid isolation" and the champions of the "American for Americans" idea did not foresee. Nonetheless, it exists. To declare the League jurisdiction inoperative in the Western hemisphere is to deprive its American members of the chief benefits...
...easy it would be to kill any game by placing penalties on mere errors of execution. Suppose a netted ball in tennis should lose the game, the fine free dashing close-to-the-net play would be killed. If an error in baseball should give the batters an additional, inning, the hard chances (which are the joy of players and spectators) would be avoided. No game should have rules that arbitrarily penalize good play out of existence, and football has just that feature...
This organization did help to kill John Barleycorn, yet there were at the same time many other and more powerful forces working for the overthrow of Demon Rum. But the Women's Christian Temperance Union flatter themselves, if they believe that alone they can subdue Lady Nicotine...
...referred to as robbers, he develops hatred for them as men that have in some way gained the wealth that should be his, and when this hatred reaches a certain intensity in the muddled thoughts of a man with unbalanced brain, he is ready to throw a bomb and kill any number of people in order to wreak revenge on the wicked bankers that demagogues and their approving newspapers have taught him to hate. --Boston Commercial Bulletin...