Word: slayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this was brought about, all this endured, because in 1924 the youthful scapegrace of the family, Daisuke Namba, attempted to slay Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan (TIME, Jan. 7, 1924). Though Daisuke was found guilty at an extraordinary session of the Supreme Court and hanged, his father, broken with grief and shame, resigned from the Diet, and enjoined upon his family and himself a voluntary retirement until Death should harvest their lives...
...state appeared as prosecutors, Edward Slay, K. T. McConnico, and William Jennings Bryan, dutiful son of a famed father, come to file a written argument...
...England's St. Georges were gathered to slay a brood of dragons?the invading U. S. Walker Cup team?of eight, and a few free-lancing U. S. golfers?as well as to try to carry the title south of the Tweed from Champion Robert Harris...
...Whom wouldst thou slay? Thy master's friend, perchance? Thy master's wife?" asks Masterson. "Nay," says the servant...
Masterson did not slay either her or him. A knife is clean. She, he told her, was filthy. . . . It was fortunate for Masterson that he did not become a murderer, for a few pages ahead there had been prepared for him another, sweeter woman, in whom at last, as they say in these books, his love-quest was to find harbor...