Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rafael had had the misfortune to fall in love with Vitoria of the mellifluous eyes, Vitoria whom General Hernandez had marked for his own. With the general Rafael drove, laudably, a bargain: give him and Vitoria one night undisturbed and on the morrow he, Rafael, would surrender himself for slaughter. Rafael and Vitoria had their night. Before dawn the revolution broke. Hernandez was shot. Sergeant-Dictator appointed Rafael general in his place. The wise old soldier had been predicting revolution: "To be governed at all is bad enough, but to be governed by the same man for one, two, three...
...forward with his cavalry, caught up with the fleeing rebels at the broken railway bridge of La Reforma. Here was "the bloodiest hour." Federal bands of Indian cavalry swept down on the rebel trains from both sides. Aviators bombed the trains repeatedly. Over 1,000 were killed in the slaughter, and after the remnant of the rebels had escaped, the dead were piled on freight cars like logs...
...GLADYS SLAUGHTER Maracay, Venezuela...
Subscriber Gladys Slaughter originally rebuked TIME for not displaying Maracay as the place where "the original bachelor father," President Juan Vincente Gomez of Venezuela, lives with his "Reigning Favorite . . . and what's more at least 60 of his 84 acknowledged children." To Dictator Gomez a thoroughgoing rebuke, if his minions have kept from Subscriber Slaughter the issue of TIME in which her letter appeared...
...course, not as simple as that. Other murders followed. One John Sprigg was shot through the middle of his wig. A scholarly hunchback, whom children called Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall, had a great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...