Word: slaughterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that for some occult reason the price of most articles is from two hundred to twenty-six hundred per cent higher in the stories than when they are landed in New York. An even more incredible hocus-pocus is put forth by Edward Robinson in a piece called "Musical Slaughter-House"; with remarkably little solid evidence to support him, he advances the thesis that the appeal made to the people last spring to support the Metropolitan Opera by monetary contributions was really a plot of the directors to retain their control and block any efforts to move into...
...surroundings which were, except in the largest cities, incredibly sordid. The bootlegger, whenever he advanced in his calling to the point of professionalism, became a public enemy in the way that any large class outside the law does; he settled his differences outside the law, to the accompaniment of slaughter and terrorism. The early colonial fur traders became suspect for the same reason, although the sin of the bootlegger has been aggravated by a centralization which made him a vast entrepreneur in other criminal fields, and produced the American genus racketeer, with all that it connotes in the breakdown...
...plays featured Harvard's attack which the Bulldogs were totally incompetent to withstand. Victory began to form when Stanley X. Hausen '34 caught a wild pass from Paul deB. deGive '34 with one hand for the first score. Braman Gibbs '36 kicked the point. In the third period the slaughter began again when Gibbs swept right end for the second touchdown, but the real smash came in the fourth period when John Ware '34 ran 50 yards for a touchdown and Craig D. Woodruff '35 scored after intercepting a pass and running 40 yards...
...patriotic blacksmiths slain every outspoken critic of NRA throughout the land last week, the slaughter would have been terrific. A definite, increasingly voluble reaction had set in against the Blue Eagle. The "dead cats" which Administrator Johnson had predicted would "fill the air" when NRA hit its stride, were flying thick & fast, and some of them were very dead cats indeed...
...amusing. George Raft shows us Steve Brodie, the Bowery's most famous character, in all the glamour and belligerency of his mad career. When he and Chuck Connors meet on a barge to settle their differences with their dukes one is treated to a really good exhibition of gory slaughter. All the variety and all the bloodlines of the actual time and scene is presented to us; it may net be altogether authentic, but it is interesting. The only really bad parts of the picture are those involving Jackie Cooper, who should surely be removed from the screen...