Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revolt in the Desert. Colonel Lawrence tells what he did simply, occasionally with power, always with insight, often in words assembled like so many pearls; but not, on the whole, in a manner to sustain interest. Apparently the abridgment was intended to give the reader all the dynamiting and slaughter at the expense of paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course?like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book...
...Roberts Jr. '29; Saul Rosenweig '29; M. C. Ross '28; Abraham Rubenstein '28; L. A. Rusin '27; J. F. Ryan '29; G. H. Sage '27; Carl Setzer '29; R. T. Sharpe '28; T. B. Shea '28; S. N. Shurtleff '27; M. H. Siegel '29; Henry Simon '29; H. J. Slaughter '29; R. T. Smith '27; Herman Snyder '27; Pierpoint Stackpole '27; G. L. Stebbins Jr. '28; A. J. Stewart '29; W. V. Strauss '28; W. D. Street '27; C. C. Taylor '28; Samuel Taylor '27; W. S. Tower Jr. '29; Abraham Weinstein '29; R. G. West '29; R. C. Westgate...
...annual liquor business, with its $30,000,000 paid for protection, would have enough profits for all the hoodlums. But each gang has its eye on a monopoly. They encroach upon one another's territory, raid one another's warehouses, capture one another's beer trucks, slaughter one another's men. There are four major gangs: one on the North Side (with a onetime assistant state's attorney as its adviser) ; two on the south side (one of which is led by "Polack Joe" Saltis) ; one on the far west side with headquarters in Cicero...
...Barons and landlords still shoot capercailzies at dawn and snipe at sunset, or shoot one another in grave "affairs of honor." Yet here is a man, a little crazed perhaps, who finds dueling a pitiable farce and who would rather watch the love-antics of moorfowl at sunrise than slaughter them. In the white castles and proud manors, dames still drill their men-servants, still preserve an ancient ritual for meals and marriage, dancing and death. Yet there is a lady, brainless perhaps, whose love transcends pride and ancestors. Baronial Germany, decadent, is threatened with perception. Light shows through...
Americana is the day's rage, but the hest of it needs no rewriting. Thus this vasty Audubon, who could prevision the cities that were to mar and befoul his beautiful Ohio River; the laying waste of the forests; the slaughter of the deer and wild pigeons. He felt, a century ago, that he must hurry to record the natural state of a world already vanishing. Monuments and societies have been set up in his name by people who hope that it is not yet too late for conservation. If such people are really interested in Audubon, this book...