Word: slain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daily News (so called "gum-chewers' sheetlet") published his picture on its front page. Caption: "TRIED TO FORGET.?J. K. Mitchell 'heavy sugar papa' of slain Dot King, returned with wife from Europe yesterday. They're shown leaving ship here...
...last to succumb. The Schelling opus is an interesting experiment, but scarcely a heaven-storming masterpiece. Based on a poem* by Alfred Noyes, which first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, it tells, in music, the tale of the return to earth of the spirits of soldiers slain in the late War. Instead of the solemn masses, purity, virtue, which they expect to find as a result of their sacrifices, they discover shameful and riotous dancing, sinful and boisterous merrymaking. The music is a fairly effective translation of this situation into sound. The mood throughout is one of gruesome hilarity...
Music, a monthly at 35? the copy and $4 the year, will shortly list itself among the cultural magazines of the country. Its editor is one who, as a famed critic, has slain, his ten thousands and praised his thousands. It is Deems Taylor himself...
...denied absolutely that his remarks about "a certain paper" had been statements of fact. He declared they bad been given as reports of a rumor, in the hope that that rumor would be arrested and slain by investigation. He did not know that the Senate Public Lands Committee had been advised not to force Mr. Fall to testify because such testimony would give him immunity from prosecution. He knew nothing about the oil scandal not acquired from the press and from rumor. He had not sent a report of the rumors which he voiced to the Committee on Public Lands...
...story concerns a millionaire who is threatened, first by a letter and then given two hours to live, by a telephone message. His daughter and heir, in love with an Irish gentleman, is also warned, and after the father is sacrificed in the interest of melodrama, slain in the most mysterious, unaccountable fashion, the effort to save the daughter becomes the mainspring. There is a good, rugged detective, who is not entirely without intelligence, like most stage detectives and a fair share of off-stage ones, and the millionaire's secretary, who assists in throwing the audience onto the wrong...