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Word: slain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indispensable if the ballyhoo is sufficiently vigorous. Many a spectator at a football game does not know what it is all about. He sees only the struggling figures, and if he has good luck may each sight of some warrior carried out on his shield--sometimes wounded, perhaps slain--to make a Roman holiday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carnegie Foundation Head Hits College Football, Wants Horse Racing Instead | 9/29/1932 | See Source »

...chorus girl (Joan Blondell); his associa tion with a gay and amazingly unresourceful confidence man (Walter Catlett): the bravado of his return to Willow Creek are incidents which a more astute playwright might have been able to develop without recourse to such familiar props of metropolitan melodrama as a slain chorus girl, a gimlet-eyed detective on the wrong track. Linden gulps so hard throughout Big City Blues that he succeeds in swallowing his part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 19, 1932 | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters live only in the tropics. Within the last year Dr. Ditmars got word that seven had been killed near Panama's Chagres River. He has hired a convict to take him to the spot where the last one was slain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Snakes of the Week | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...Guards came running, fired shot after shot at the mad bear. Three shots struck Keeper Earl, the 30th slew the bear. Physicians examining the keeper's body found his lungs ripped open, his intestines bared by great claw strokes. They decided that the bear, not the bullets, had slain Keeper Earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bad Bear | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...Mason-Dixon Line." A happy blackamoor named David is found dancing and singing for the girl. He is warned to stay away from her. The geography of The Tree, however, must not mislead you. There is a lynching. Victim is the Negro after the girl is found raped and slain. At this point this earnest play turns allegorical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 25, 1932 | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

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