Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ragged edge of oblivion. I am trying to adjust my mind to a result that seems quite inevitable. The bird-defenders hold few good cards and all the high trumps seem to be held by the bird destroyers. For years I have noted the awful annual increase in bird slaughter and for years I have dreaded the arrival of the day when the small circle of men who control game protection matters in Washington would decide that no more reductions should be made in the killing privileges of sportsmen and game hogs...
...pair of 70's for the two rounds. Joe Kirkwood, sole U. S. entrant, was lucky to qualify with 153, the first 80 strokes of which were somewhat impeded by a family of ducks that paraded across one hole and a family of weasels which he helped to slaughter at another...
...heart, she watched the bull charge into the ring, watched the matadors and the toreadors approach. That much the Spanish people could force her to do, but they could not make her keep her eyes open; and throughout the whole nauseating, raucous performance, her eyes avoided the cruel slaughter...
...Spanish in the 18-year-old Prince of Asturias makes him a bullfighting enthusiast, his Anglo-Ger-man conscience revolts and he becomes head of the Cruelty to Animals Society. If the 16-year-old Beatriz and the 14-year-old Cristina adore the toreador, they detest the cruel slaughter of bulls. Thus, the great-grand-children of Queen...
...carrying a revolver wrapped in bandages about an appar ently injured hand, he entered the Temple of Music at a Buffalo Exposition. He stood in line to shake hands with President William McKinley. At the appropriate moment, he fired two shots. Police and Secret Service men saved Czolgosz from slaughter by the crowd. Eight days later, McKinley died and 45 days afterwards, Czolgosz, unrepentant, felt 1,700 volts of electricity pass through his body at Auburn prison...