Word: slain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main character, a woman who is torn between voodoo magic and hysterical Christianity, distracted by the death of her six children, driven finally to loud rebellion against all the Powers of Destiny, should represent man in the primitive rather than in the African type. In the end she is slain on a mountain top by the fanatics whose beliefs she challenges. In the course of the drama, the Negro actors chant spirituals, which are welcome to a bored audience...
...wind. They have the sweep of Hermann Melville tempered by quiet judgment and an explorer's interest. When Daniel Boone tells a story he is introduced calmly as "a remarkable individual." A charging black bear is made no more ferocious than it seemed to a man who had slain many specimens and knew they were primarily vegetarians. The devouring of a Negro by wolves is told simply, just the way it happened...
Stanford White, famed architect slain by insane Harry K. Thaw, planned it. The fortune that paid for it was derived from the Chicago Tribune. It was built in 1904, the home of Editor Robert W. Patterson, who, like many of the Chicago Tribune family (Medill-McCormick-Patterson), included Washington as well as Chicago in his affairs. Editor Patterson died, his wife returned to Chicago, his daughter (Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger) took the house. Address: No. 15 Dupont Circle...
...astonishingly tough and adept jack-tar. He is but little concerned for his bereft Mary, back in Italy, becoming passionately interested in David's account of a lovely maiden in distress in wilderness America. David's locket shows Silver Cross, twin sister of the man slain by David, to be of utmost virginal beauty. Ever the champion of such females, Shiloh sets off across the Appalachians afoot with good-hearted David, improvising odes to Nature, caroling Greek choruses, skimming the rugged terrain with strides of flamelike lightness and celerity...
...University of Wisconsin has recently made a passionate plea to fathers against this vile filcher of the young man's time and money. He is evidently of the impression that the paths of autos lead but to the roadhouse where w.ne flows freely and time is lightly slain. Goodnight points out significantly that a car enables a student of weak character to procure liquor more easily. Whether a student of strong character can procure his liquor easily without a car or can resist the steering gear's natural tendency to veer toward a blind tiger he does...