Word: slayers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...triumph of the new Senator was not unclouded; for shortly after the election he was informed that Mme. Caillaux, slayer* of Editor Calmette in 1914, had been severely hurt (dislocated hip and broken kneecap) when her automobile skidded into a tree on the way from Mamers, where the Caillaux estates are situate, to Le Mans, capital of the Department of Sarthe. Her first words on recovering consciousness were : "Was Joseph elected?" Apprised of the result, she uttered a cry of joy and was whisked off to a hospital, where an operation was performed. Senator-elect Caillaux rushed to his wife...
...Manhattan, a tall gray-haired man in a dinner jacket followed a small brunette into the night club of one Texas Guinan. Waiters gaped. Broadway brahmins stared at each other with a wild surmise. "It's Harry Thaw," they said. The famed slayer, onetime maniac, rabbit-fancier, danced with the brunette, entertained many at his table, sent incredible tips to orchestra-players, listened to a song composed in his honor...
Died. Albert H. Loeb, 56, father of Richard A. Loeb, recently convicted murdered, in Chicago. Mr. Loeb, until lately, was Vice President of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Said The New York Times in. a relentless headline: "Albert Loeb, Father of Franks' Slayer, Dies in Chicago Home Where Crime Was Planned...
...Action Française said bitterly that the next slayer of a Royalist will probably be awarded the Legion of Honor...
...Liberté produced a picture of the mother* of the murdered man kneeling at a church altar while his slayer joyously quaffed champagne in a Montmartre cafe. It added: "Yesterday's verdict did more to promote Facism in France than twenty years' work of the Camelots...