Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bagataway', as they called the game, continued Coach Herbert, "became an important ceremonial rite. A match was proceeded by a solemn dance. Then the teams, each, consisting of the complete fighting force of a tribe prepared to slaughter each other. There were often as many as 800 or 1000 warriors on a side. The squaws aided by switching the braves to make them fight more vigorously...
...fatalistic attitude and let nature take its course would doubtless lead in a short time to such swarms that all Britain would be a vast human sardine-can. Yet there is a gleam of hope like the dawn on far off hills. Before quarters become too close for effective slaughter, let England enlist in life's campaign for "Bigger and Better Wars...
...Rhode Island invaders are, however, no lambs ready for the slaughter, but a team which will give Coach Wachter's best combination some uneasy moments. On their one trip to Greater Boston this season they held the strong Tufts five even throughout the game and lost 29 to 28 in the last minute of play. G. Haslam, quarterback on the Rhode Island eleven that ushered in the Stadium gridiron season last fall, is the mainstay of the visitors' attack. Harvard R. I. State Smith; r.f. l.g., Pinto Gordon, l.f. r.g., Jansen Rauh, c. c. J. Haslam Samborski, r.g. l.f., Hudson...
...TIME, Jan. 14) for disloyalty to the Church, adding: "If the Episcopal Church admits the right of individual priests and Bishops to interpret Holy Scripture otherwise than the Church has received the faith . . . then it may as well re-sign itself to another St. Bartholomew's Day of Slaughter*; . . . Modernists are image breakers who have exhumed an ancient heresy . . . The spiritual barometer indicates lots of wind . . . We are facing an irresponsible conflict . . . This is not an open or unsettled question. The Church has recorded the faith and kept that faith so recorded from the beginning." ¶Charles H. Brent...
...16th Century to the Protestants of France), so called because it began in Paris on St. Batholomew's Day, Aug. 24, 1572. It was planned by Catherine de' Medici, primarily as revenge upon Admiral Coligny, but later being broadened in scope so as to include the slaughter at one blow of all the Huguenot leaders, thus ruining the Protestant party in France. At length persuading the King that the massacre was a measure of public safety, she succeeded in wringing from him his consent, and on the fateful Sunday at daybreak the massacre began, spreading ultimately throughout France...