Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Months later, Geoffrey reaps the reward of his good turn. When the Khan's tribesmen have surrounded the military outpost at Chukoti, Geoffrey and the girl (Olivia de Havilland) who loves his brother are the only members of the garrison who survive cold-blooded massacre. To avenge the slaughter at Chukoti becomes the sole purpose of Vickers' 27th Lancers. Its chance comes at the siege of Sebastopol where Surat Khan, now allied with Russia, is holding the heights of Balaklava opposite the Lancers, stationed in the valley. When Headquarters gives him the orders for his regiment to retreat...
...bang-up competition for readers' attention. So Edi tor Wallace quietly began to publish original articles, now pays $500 to $1,000 for such material. Most famed Reader's Digest original was " -and Sudden Death," by Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, which ap peared in August 1935, dramatized the slaughter of automobile casualties, was quoted far & wide, fathered many a horror-struck accident report in the Press...
...have only one fear," observed the Realmleader more calmly, "one fear- and I say it quite openly-that the countries around us into which the poison of Communism is slowly eating its way will gradually succumb to bolshevism. . . . Of course we could say of Spain: 'Let them slaughter their officers and murder their priests and intellectuals-it is none of our business.' I would have the mentality of a child if I should take that attitude. We do not live on the moon. What happens in Europe does concern us. I believe that we 'wild nationalists...
...around them families disappeared in the slaughter while survivors went to pieces under the strain. A thick-headed Loyalist arrested early in the War spent a year in the water-soaked mines of New gate prison, escaped, wasted the rest of his life wandering through the woods looking for his wife. Genteel Mrs. Demooth, most cultivated lady of Deerfield Settlement, went raving mad, shouted Biblical curses at her maid. Feeble-minded Nancy picked up with a raiding British soldier, bore his child in the woods during an attack, was saved by an Indian who took her for his squaw. Organized...
...bumper autumn crop of forage, which seemed unlikely, cattle would die by droves this winter. One of the states hardest hit by the drought of 1934, which reduced the total U.S. cattle herd some 9,000,000 head below normal, was North Dakota, which lost, either by forced slaughter or shipping, 1,000,000 animals. One of the states hardest hit last week was also North Dakota which would have to sell or ship 500,000 cattle immediately...