Word: slain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves, the party of eleven Japanese waited until the right moment came, then rushed forth and threw themselves upon the Chinese, engaging them in hand-to-hand conflict. At the end of the affray, some of the Chinese had taken flight, while the remaining one hundred Chinese were lying slain upon the ground. The dispatch added that the leader of the valorous band of eleven had suffered a sligh cut from a Chinese sword, which was the sum total of the Nipponese injuries...
Ambassador Johnson on his gunboat in the river had a front seat at the bombing of Nanking's railway station and its Hsiakwan slums along the Yangtze. There Chinese too young, too old, too poor, too sick or too ignorant to have left Nanking were slain in slews. Japanese bombs wrecked and ignited their miserable huts, blew them to bits, seared the living, cremated the dead. Instead of panic or disorder, the reaction of Nanking's wretched poor seemed to be either to cower bemused and trembling or to rush into the streets with yells, curses and fists...
...story thrusts Bette Davis, as the widow of a slain gangster, into a topsy-turvy milieu, in which she becomes secretary to a whimsical and unhappily married lawyer (Ian Hunter) and the one-night bride of a thoroughbred weakling (Henry Fonda). His uncompromising father forces an annulment, the young man goes obediently abroad to marry another (Anita Louise), unaware that he is leaving an unborn son behind him. On this star-crossed situation there follow several slow-footed years, distinguished in the film by bright directorial fillips and badly managed transitions, while the Furies mobilize for the unreasonable onslaught that...
...fire of their shore batteries. To this Commissar Litvinoff replied that a Japanese-Manchukuoan gunboat had opened fire on a Soviet outpost and that as the affray proceeded a Soviet gunboat had indeed been sunk. Soviet lives lost were two, according to Moscow, but Tokyo claimed its guns had slain...
...confirmed in her suspicions of Benoit. Unwittingly she falls in love with her prey only to find she has betrayed him to the German office. After heart-rending scenes in which both women vio to save their lover from tragedy, Benoit escapes the death trap. Erna is slain by her Prussian affiliate when captured, but Benoit and the post-mistress join hands unscathed...