Word: slain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Composer Strauss and his librettist laid their scene in a Hellenic back yard, envisioned livestock rooting about the grave of ax-murdered Agamemnon while his murderers' dying screeches float from backstage over the most malignant of operatic orchestrations. Their frenzied, hagridden Elektra, daughter of the slain Agamemnon and instigator of the ghastly revenge that overtakes his killers, demanded a singer of enormous endurance. Mariette Mazarin, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1910, fainted while taking her final curtain calls. The late Ernestine Schumann-Heink, powerful Katrinka of opera singers, left the original cast at Dresden because...
Because for a brief period during the war he served in the United States Navy, the Legion furnished a guard of honor to one of the men responsible for the current gang warfare in Revere. When Gaeta was slain on Tuesday by East Boston gangsters who were trying to "muscle in" on his number pool and bookmaking monopoly, Revere Post No. 61 of the Legion stepped willingly forward to claim its glorious dead. On Wednesday Revere's flags, which twelve days before had honored America's 400,000 World War dead, flew at half-mast again in honor of their...
...patrol saw blood dripping from the tower, climbed up to find Pembroke Stephens lying dead amid six crouching survivors so terrified that at first they could not believe the fighting was over and the city quiet at last after 89 days' siege. Japanese machine gun bullets had slain Correspondent Stephens. The Japanese command soon said these had been fired at Chinese (an impossibility, considering the terrain), heaved Japanese sighs at "the passing of this distinguished British journalist...
...second great Japanese victory of the week was in North China. There Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki's advance (TIME, Nov. 15) overwhelmed the besieged provincial stronghold of Taiyuan and at least 1,000 of its Chinese defenders were slain as Japanese stormed and breached through the walls...
Amid this tension, Japanese officers, who said they would like to attend last week the funeral of four British soldiers slain by stray shells fortnight ago, were refused permission by the British. Chinese officers were permitted to attend and a swarm of Chinese students dashed through Shanghai streets cheering and waving banners inscribed: "LONG LIVE OUR BRITISH FRIENDS...