Word: slays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good and bad taste, I was perhaps somewhat unduly biased against this book from the start, a condition which tended to increase as I went on. It is another one of those stories, this time dealing with college life, in which the author sets out with virgin sword to slay the ogre of iniquity who has so long beset the world. Here he starts out by laying bare the sin and wickedness of our generation. I, being a more or less normal child of the said generation, have become to some degree weary of continually being sacrificed by youthful authors...
...Winnipeg, one Stanley Carlson equipped himself with a cowhide suit covered with spikes an inch long, announced his intention of departing soon for Port Arthur to slay wolves by clouting them on the head with an axe while they nibble at his armor...
...Tattered Tom, the bootblack, is still able to thrill adolescent readers as he helps the white-haired old gentleman across the street to receive in recompense a bright silver dollar and a great deal of moral advice. The athletic English striplings of Henty's confection continue to slay their thousands in every known historical period. But the last few years have only brought forth one writer with a true genius for the " children's story," Hugh Lofting, and he belongs rather with Lewis Carroll than with Henty...
Cooks who pour poison in the rice and slay...
...north amused by its own eternal melancholy; it parallels the Slay in those rare moments of formidable relaxation...