Word: slayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their hearts. Perhaps the invisible knights would round out a day of ghoulish sport by maiming 200 more unsuspecting men, women & children. Such fiends would delight to steal upon a wedding party and strike down the bride, the bridegroom and the guests. As their sadistic fury grew they would slay horses, cattle, dogs, cats, and perhaps run mad, slashing trees, stabbing bushes, murdering grass...
...SILENT HOUSE-A Chinaman takes his friends for a slay-ride in London (TIME...
...passing of the day when English A, along with German A and History 1, was a Freshman nightmare requires no parting tears. Never a particularly difficult course it managed to bore to extinction those whom it did not slay by its complex for introductory technicalities in English composition. Now it has been subdivided until almost every Freshman can discover something which especially interests him; under Professor Perry's direction it has become more spirited without ceasing to be practical. If the present plan is satisfactory and if men admitted to the College under the Highest Seventh Rule...
...their mother. Electra. Actress Margaret Anglin lately received a gold medal for having "kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature" (TIME, April 4). Last week she played the part of a Greek woman, Electra who, to avenge her father's death, spurs her brother on to slay their adulterous, murderous mother, Clytemnestra. Simultaneously, hard by Manhattan, a real U. S. adultress and her paramour were on trial for their lives for having prosecuted a design very similar to Clytemnestra's by methods scarely more gruesome than those set forth in the play. The U. S. man and woman...
...presidential desk was placed a yellow glass-covered urn. Within, like cubes of sugar, lay some salts presented to the President by a scientist. Should a bad odor invade the presidential office, the top of the urn can be removed. The discreet salts slay germs, sweeten air. ¶ Last week the President- Urged public and railroads alike to exercise greater caution at grade crossings...