Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Action suggestive of wholesale slaughter . . . will not be allowed...
Jack Waldren, who has excelled in practice recently, has nosed out Phil Walker and Roger Wilcox for the hotly contested No. 2 breastroke post. Cutler and Frannie Powers will probably swim the 220 together, for Ulen must garner every point possible before the slaughter begins in the back and breast strokes. Although he can put a better 400 relay on the mark than can Brown, Harvard's saturnine sage does not want the seven-point last event to decide the meet, preferring, if he can, to gain enough tallies by seconds and thirds and by a possible six points...
Please forget your thoughts of slaughter...
...Robin & Rainger. Richard Rodgers is not only the master of a tonal palette filled with surprise and delight, but he is constantly at search for new forms across the known boundaries of his medium. The dream music for Peggy-Ann, and twelve years later for Married An Angel, the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet music for On Your Toes, the march of the clowns in Jumbo, while probably causing Richard Strauss no alarm for his laurels, are imaginative and charming be yond the accepted standards of musicomedy music...
...American-supported colleges, as the nearest thing to neutral territory in fighting areas, were the only refuge for Chinese women from slaughter and rapine. Teacher Minne Vautrin of Ginling reported the admission of 10,000 young women to Ginling grounds: "Never shall I forget the faces of the young girls as they streamed in. ... They had disguised themselves in every possible way -many had cut their hair, most of them had blackened their faces, many were wearing men's or boys' clothes or those of old women...