Word: slain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus all that President Benes stands for in Europe played its cards-or sent out last week its S. O. S. He visited the tomb of Yugoslavia's slain King Alexander, the father of Boy King Peter, and that served to remind millions how firm under His Late Majesty was the friendship of Yugoslavia and France-such friendship, plus faith in the League of Nations having ever been the cornerstone of the Little Entente. It reminded scarcely anyone that the French statesmen with whom Alexander was friendly were moderate Democrats, men who would have liked to exterminate the Socialist...
...halted four months ago by Chinese troops, consternation reigned last week. Clarioned Suiyan's Chinese Governor General Fu Tso-yi: "We shall countenance no threat to the integrity of this province!" He mobilized and reviewed the whole of Suiyan's military might "in tribute to Chinese soldiers slain in the 1936 defeat of the Mongol horde." To Suiyan's rebuke, China's Nanking Government added another. Declared Wang Ching-wei, chairman of the Kuomintang (National Revolutionary Party) and onetime Foreign Minister: "Nanking is fully determined to support Suiyan against revolutionary movements...
...Spain arrived New York Timesman William P. Carney. Over the eight solid weekday columns of his first dispatch the Times headlined: "MADRID SITUATION REVEALED; UNCENSORED STORY OF SIEGE. All Semblance of Democratic Forms of Government in Spain Disappears-25,000 Put to Death by Radicals-Priests, Nuns Slain." Excerpts: "Hundreds of luckless Spaniards who held the most liberal political views have been slain in Madrid because they were denounced by former servants who were discharged for incompetence...
...items. Free-lancers send in material on speculation. Earthworms one foot long-for classroom dissection-come from Michigan, huge bullfrogs from Louisiana. France ships bushels of its edible snails, which are bigger than U. S. snails and therefore better for anatomical instruction. Rattlesnakes from Texas sometimes arrive alive, are slain on the premises. Cats are bought in the neighborhood, drowned and embalmed, but Ward's does not advertise for cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years ago when the Rochester zoo elephant died, Ward's bought the carcass, macerated and stripped off the flesh, sold...
...Author Williams), cocky, ingratiating, cigaret-mouthing bellboy from a nearby hotel in which a woman has been sensationally done to death. Dan cajoles old Mrs. Bramson so skilfully that he be comes her constant attendant. Olivia be comes progressively aware that Dan is the hotel murderer, that the slain woman's head is in his battered hatbox, that he is going to kill her aunt. Olivia is also aware that she is falling in love with him. Climax of her disintegration occurs when she claims the sinister box as her own in order to dissuade a Scotland Yarder from...