Word: ogreish
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...subject of derogatory remarks in Uruguay." Twenty-four hours later an Uruguayan "apology" was delivered at Havana; whereupon at Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, the Cuban Minister, whose trunks had been packed, ordered them unpacked again. Many a Cuban plebeian, unconscious that the national honor had been saved, learned with ogreish interest of how an iron screw was slowly turned in the Santiago prison last week. The screw tightened a steel collar fitted with an iron spike and encircling the neck of Quesado Castillo, a Negro who had murdered his wife and daughter. At 6:03 a. m. the garrote began...
Pour le sport, matadors are gored by bulls, half-backs achieve broken collar bones, skiers leap at 90 miles an hour into snowdrifts where many a hip is twisted awry. Last week Sport, most ogreish of modern Deities, lured Frãulein Elfriede Lucker of Dresden and four male companions up the snow-swept Bratschenkopf, near the Austro-German frontier...