Word: slain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corneliu turned the father's theorizing into practice, founded the wild-eyed, green-shirted Iron Guard-mystic, antiSemitic, pro-Nazi but also ferociously patriotic. When Corneliu was slain by King Carol's orders in 1938, canonized by his followers, old Ion Codreanu, then 66, felt duty bound to step from the background into active leadership of the most jingoistic faction of the Iron Guard...
...YORK--The New York Jewish Morning Journal, in a dispatch from London, reported tonight that 700 Jews are known to have been slain and 7000 wounded during the anti-Semitic killings which accompanied the Iron Guard rebellion in Rumania...
...bodies were figuratively heaped around him. In a daze the House passed the bill, 206-to-139. With Mr. Ramspeck to the White House last week must have marched the ghosts of all the Presidents who have been harassed to desperation by appointments; President James A. Garfield, slain by a disappointed office seeker; perhaps even the shadow of Louis XIV, who said: "Every time I fill a vacant office I make 100 malcontents and one ingrate...
...civilized Americans who platonize in the house, an ill-matched Irish couple who come for the afternoon, and their Cockney chauffeur. The true centre is inhuman : it is Lucy, a falcon with "maniacal eyes," who rides the Irishwoman's wrist and devours, from her bloody glove, a new-slain pigeon. While the chauffeur and the servants go backstairs to evolve the cruel jealousies of simple blood, and the Americans maintain their delicately sterile balance, the Irish pair talk. Most of their talk is of the falcon, whom the husband hates to desperation, and to whom the woman is attached...
...Westminster Abbey and the House of Lords were hit. Day after this announcement, Nazi bombs landed so close to Canterbury Cathedral they shattered all its substitute stained glass. Shopping in Canterbury's streets, Lydia Cecily Hill, 27, cabaret friend of the opulent Sultan of Johore, 67, was slain. The Sultan, who is acquainted also with the Franklin D. Roosevelts and Mae West, expressed deep sorrow and consoled Mother Hill. She well knew that the only reason he isn't her son-in-law was prudish pressure by the sahibs of Singapore, where the Sultan met the Hills...