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...Marshall, Ark., at the first two lines of a limerick Emmett Slay chuckled. At the next two he snickered. At the last one he roared boisterously, slapped his hip, discharged a pistol in his pocket, shot a friend in the thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 28, 1934 | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...this time Cubans who had felt the clutches of the Porra, who had languished in slimy jails or knew that the Porra had murdered a friend or relative, started a wild manhunt through the streets of Havana to slay and trample every Porrista they could catch. Frenzy grew maddest when Colonel Antonio Jiminez, dread Chief of the Porra, was sighted on the Prado. "There's Jiminez! It's Jiminez, the Porrista! Kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Loot The Palace! | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...than a generation ago. . . . He cannot-or will not-meet the defender of religion on modern ground. He prefers to impute to his opponent a belief in hellfire, an infallible Bible, a Calvinistic monarchial God, and the most primitive conception of blood atonement. Naturally, it is more fun to slay this straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Darrow Forums | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...wrote von Gerhard from Texas that she would return and slay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 13, 1930 | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...Mexican Penal Code, promulgated to become effective Dec. 15, also makes it no crime for a father to slay both his deceived daughter and her deceiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Penal Codes | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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