Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countries on the outlawry of war. They are all going to sign. And the same people who are going to sign will attend meetings of cabinets in America, in Great Britain, in France and throughout the world to determine how to spend millions of dollars on the mechanism of slaughter. They are increasing their cruiser strength in America and here...
...have ascertained that very many small, private concessionaires "are making enormous profits, profits which they could not possibly expect to draw in any European country or America." She adds: "An ideal concession is that of a Danish button company which makes buttons from pressed blood obtained from Russian slaughter houses, and has acquired a fortune in a very short time...
...nick of slaughter Martin and Claire are rescued from the black and bloody tunnel by a search party which turns out to have been sent by Martin's antediluvial wife, Helen, whom he had thought drowned. Before her presence can soil the lovers' passion, however, Helen is kidnaped by a fresh band of lustful and flood-maddened males...
Proponents of war, if any still dare so to style themselves, have excused the slaughter of millions on Malthusian grounds of reasoning; but not even the most heartless science can acquit humanity of guilt in the destruction of its noblest attainments. And still the nations, without even the wisdom of a burnt child, rush to heap ever higher their piles of weapons, that they know must inevitably, unless some power can stop the insane contest, fall upon them and bury them once more...
Inevitably the first result of such "experienced and powerful" throat-cutting between two major groups will be a slaughter of the independent provincial evening newspapers. It was this which James Ramsay MacDonald called, last week, "an alarming situation...