Word: sadist
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...notorious Bulgarian sadist, Colonel Kousmazov, has quelled several riots by killing various suspected young men under the eyes of their parents and then forcing the latter to kiss publicly the hands of the dead. . . . Dogs were allowed to fight over the bodies of these men for days afterward. . . . On another occasion suspected young men were tied with ropes and dragged through the streets behind trucks until they died...
...inhabited city in the world," by order of General Maurice Sarrail, French High Commissioner in Syria. Impartial witnesses placed the human loss at 1,000 lives, the property damage at over $10,000,000. L'Echo de Paris cried, last week: "General Sarrail is a senile, stupid, brutal sadist ... a criminal ... a bloody tyrant!" Meanwhile the delicacy of M. Painleve's position was rendered acute by the fact that M. Herriot, leader of the Radical-Socialists,* declared a few months...