Word: slayer
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...biting the. dust he was launching a literary fad, and that it would change the lives of half the boys in the civilized world. For hot on the heels of North's bullet rode Ned Buntline, the famed dime novelist, all agog to plump Tall Bull's slayer into one of his thrillers. North, a simple soldier, refused to be blown up into a "paperback hero." "If you want a man to fill that bill," he told Buntline, "he's over there." He meant the "young giant with sleepy eyes and straw in his hair...
Winnie Ruth Judd, 46, the "blonde tigress" trunk slayer of 20 years ago (she shot two women friends, dismembered the bodies, shipped them from Phoenix to Los Angeles), made her fourth escape from...
Jules came to office in troublous times. His decapitation of the nightclub slayer Eugene Weidmann was accompanied by such a burst of newsmen's flashbulbs and sob sisters' ink that public executions were barred thenceforth. Once he was arrested on suspicion of being a German paratrooper when his portable guillotine got lost. Thanks to the occupying Germans' zeal for capital punishment, however, he managed to pile up a post-Sanson record of 316 beheadings during his career...
...Angeles ratcatcher, W. Earl Duclus was a champion. He still claims the alltime record for rats trapped there in one day (1,072 in 1924). Now he is a mosquito slayer, and his exploits are fully as impressive. More than any other man, he is responsible for keeping sprawling Los Angeles comparatively free of the little bloodsuckers...
...time the grouse season opened in Britain last week, on the "Glorious Twelfth" of August, it was all too plain that austerity and high taxes and a dearth of rich American visitors had decimated the crop of sportsmen. Grouse shooting is an expensive sport; each bird costs its slayer an average of ?1 ($4)..Fewer beaters were available; the sportsmen often had to tramp around the moors flushing out their own birds, instead of waiting decently in ambush. There were plenty of birds: King George bagged 60 his first day. The London Times unbent to give a grouse-eye view...