Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven years ago* the Kerensky Provisional Government fell and the Bolsheviki seized power on the crest of a wave of slaughter...
Earlier despatches told of terrific attacks and ghastly slaughter in which the Wu troops were victorious. Then Chang exploded a land mine under the Wu armies, killed thousands. Immediately a formidable attack was launched by Chang; and the Wu armies began to retreat...
...crime is a spiritual slaughter of a highly charged barbarian who is being educated in the current unworldliness of a wealthy home. She seeks solace from the daily burden of propriety with a drink-dishevelled author. Then she dreams. She dreams in a modernistic manner, reminiscent of the weird episodes in The Adding Machine...
...Arthur W. Currie, ex-Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Ex- peditionary Force, now Principal of McGill University: "By the World War we gained a truer appreciation and a better realization of war's unspeakable waste, its dreadful hardships, its cruel slaughter and its aftermath of loneliness, sorrow and broken hearts. We now know that as a means of solving the world's problems and removing international discord war is a delusion and a lie. We know that no matter how much a nation may desire to hold itself aloof and to keep apart from the struggle...
Several important elements in the theatrical world have already announced that they will not boost their seat prices sky-high in order to pluck the political lamb come to the slaughter. The newly-formed Managers' Protective Association, formed by Lee Shubert as a rival to the old Producing Managers' Association, has made known that seats to 75% of the current attractions, controlled by them, will not be sold for a small ransom...