Word: slew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Virginia, one of the authors of the Federal Reserve Act (1913). Not mild, however, was the accompanying speech by ponderous Senator Heflin of Alabama. Wall Street, he bellowed, was the hotbed and breeding place of the worst form of gambling that ever cursed the country. The Louisiana State Lottery slew its hundreds but the New York State gambling exchanges were slaying hundreds of thousands. The gambling monster was destroying U. S. homes, was driving U. S. citizens to poverty, to insanity. There must be a stop put to this evil...
When underworldlings and a Canton policeman slew Don R. Mellett, crusading editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News (TIME, July 26, 1926, et seq.), Police Chief Seranus Lengel was tried for corruption, sentenced to prison. He got a new trial, an acquittal. Last week he was reinstated as Canton's police chief...
...discovery and capture by police last week, of one Manuel Trejo y Morales, who gave Toral the pistol wherewith he slew Obregon, was widely rumored to open up a possibility that the Assassin will be retried in an effort to show that he and Trejo were the instruments of a general Roman Catholic plot against the life of General Obregon...
...Thames; and the statue of King Richard the Lion Hearted in Old Palace Yard, between the House of Lords and Westminster Abbey, lost His Majesty's sword which the wind snapped off at the hilt. Landsmen's deaths in Europe totaled 25. The South American cyclone slew 41 Argentines, injured 150, swept away 200,000 acres of crops...
...today the Vagabond sets out with a heart as light as that of Manis Twain's hero who slew his conscience and then murdered thirty-eight within two weeks as a start towards settling some ancient scores. From all he has been able to gather from acquaintances who ought to know. Dartmouth is situated on the top of a sky jump somewhere near the Canadian border and was once patronized by one of the Webster boys. But with a few simple rules, such as being careful not to ask if green ties are in honor of St. Patrick...