Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oregon it was announced last week that September was the best month for slaughter. Numbers killed-predatory animals: 579 coyotes, 45 bobcats, 8 stock-killing bears; non-predatory: 188 porcupines, 139 badgers, 60 skunks . . . and many another species...
...Cambridgeport, indeed! What would it be without Harvard? A collection of slaughter houses, a pig-killing village. Whoever heard of Cambridge but as the seat of Harvard University, from which it got its very name...
...American Museum of Natural History, under William J. Morden and James L. Clark, cabled from Peking its return from Tibet and Turkestan with enough of the creatures to make a large family group. The despatch said ovis poli were 'not so rare'; reported that the natives slaughter them wholesale for meat; reported seeing 33 in one herd. . . . My brother, Theodore, was active last week making speeches in his native state (New York), on military economy (which he at- tacked) and migration to farms (which he advocated...
...northeastern Colorado, men armed themselves with clubs, flocked to Fort Morgan, ranged in a wide-flung line over the prairie, herded 2,000 wild rabbits-pestilential to crops-into a wire enclosure, waded among them, slew all, eagerly looked forward to another field day the "mammoth bunny slaughter of the Denver Post Brush Civic Club, occasion for an annual holiday in northeastern Colorado...
...alarm, figures of men and horses galloping from concealment, the crack of rifles, carnage. As survivors of the herd thundered off into fastnesses of their island (18 miles long, five wide), they could not know the worst: that this was no casual foray by human meat-hunters, but slaughter by up-to-date sportsmen, with intent to decimate. Not hunger but commercialism had precipitated the onslaught. The buffalo of Antelope Island were doomed, all but about 50 of them, to make way for more manageable and profitable cattle...