Word: slain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story, not as do many prisoners, shamefaced and haltingly, forced to reveal their crimes and motives by harassing lawyers?no, Watchmaker Schwartzbard openly confessed with gleaming eyes and hysterical mien, his body trembling with passion, how he slew "General" Simon Petlura to avenge the deaths of thousands of Jews slain in pogroms, which he charged "General" Petlura instigated...
...next day, by an identical vote, his Ministry was approved by the Dail. The only change was the appointment of Fitzgerald Kenny as Minister of Justice in succession to the slain Kevin Christopher O'Higgins (TIME, July 18, 1925). Ernest Blythe is Vice President in addition to being Minister of Finance, the former post also having been held by Mr. O'Higgins at the time of his death...
...Ferguson, the Bhingi maiden cultivated to perfection by an eccentric U. S. dowager, could not love him, though she frequently saved his life. From the bold wind that he sowed against the Bhingis and their Catholic teachers, Barboas reaped a whirlwind of remorse. Safra, returning to her people, was slain by them in the arms of a young Briton who, through Barboas' fault, was late for the rescue...
...Baby Horace Collins Pitkin grew old enough to understand the answers to his questions, he learned the weight of his father's martyrdom. When he grew old enough to read men's books he read Robert E. Speer's A Memorial of Horace Tracy Pitkin,* which told how the slain man had as a boy been skilled in mechanics, had treated school studies as chores essential to be done in spite of dislike, had for two years of his young manhood been undecided whether to study medicine or theology. He took up religion and, with Sherwood Eddy and Henry...
...Poland, home city of Murderer Kovenko, the White Russian newspaper Novaia Rossia appealed for contributions wherewith to retain able defense attorneys in his behalf. Immediately the Polish Government suppressed Novaia Rossia, placed the editor in jail. In London Lord Rothermere's violently anti-red Evening News declared: "The slain man (Vojkov) signed the death warrants of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family. By Vojkov's assassination at the hand of a royalist, retribution has come to one of the chief perpetrators of one of the foulest murders in history...