Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keenness. He was promoted to the General Staff. During the World War, when Japan seized Germany's foothold on the Chinese mainland (Kiaochow) but was later forced to disgorge it, Staff Officer Araki was Japanese military attaché in Russia, gained invaluable knowledge of modern practices of slaughter by incessant observation trips up and down the Eastern Front...
They were a people of violent contrasts, of sudden and unpremeditated changes, who welcomed paradox with open arms and accepted the contradiction of life on its own terms. Sir Walter Raleigh could violate his own word, giving a whole town to slaughter, and yet celebrate the power of death in a peroration of romantic fervor. Marston was a satirist of brutal and unscrupulous force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes...
GALSWORTHY (John) The Slaughter of Animals For Food...
...attack begins. The attackers fire a volley from behind trees, then throw away their guns and rush the defenders with lances. If the assault is successful, slaughter is indiscriminate-except for nubile girls, who are spared if they refrain from fighting...
...revealed that in 1926 Samuel Insull sponsored British Walker Vehicle Co. which made 20 chassis, sold four. British creditors hoped they might discover funds in the mysterious Dragon Investment Co., Ltd., an Insull trust. Dragon's directors are mostly clerks in the big law firm of Slaughter & May, solicitors for the Insulls...