Word: slain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the Age of Romanticism. And, gentle readers, please know the Vagabond is losing no time. In matters of love one must strike while the heart is warm. Already the Vagabond has found the sleeping princess--and a beautiful one, too! Already--valiant fellow! --he has slain the fire-eyed dragon. Already--oh clever one! --he has cut a piece from her priceless veil. Already--with his wand--he has awakened her from her magic sleep; already seated her on her golden throne. And things thus far are going well. Already he has approached her with these sweet words...
There are tensely dramatic moments throughout the play. The round-up at police headquarters is very good and the scene in Bertha. Williams' attic just before the concluding fight, when the blacks are mourning one of their number slain is also effective...
...voted out of their seats by the majority bloc, threatened with criminal procedure, a move which practically wiped out the right wing minority that started the shooting. While humble Mexicans celebrated their 125th independence day. Congress prepared to swear in 19 new Deputies replacing the 17 expelled, the two slain...
...began with Adam, ended with the Flood. Cosmos II ended in 1914. The Bible Students once predicted that Cosmos III would end with the Kingdom of God in 2874 but currently they are more concerned with Judge Rutherford's prophecy that a universal war is looming. (And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground-Jeremiah, 25:33.) As to when the universal war will occur Judge...
...death-hurling U. S. bombing planes. Daily Chiang totaled up the kill-500 men, 2,000, then 5,000 as the pace of slaughter quickened; finally 7,000 slaughtered Chinese butchered in four days. As the Generalissimo's high-minded Nanking government pointed out. "the number of the slain is far less than those who die in a single provincial famine. There is only one way of dealing with Communists...