Word: slewed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other familiar fables are recognized: the rabbit who slew a lion by showing him his rival in a well (on the principle of Aesop's dog-and-bone tale) ; the gluttonous heron that was strangled by a crab; the mice that gnawed elephants free; the bird with the golden dung (goose of golden eggs) ; the ass in the tiger skin. Translator Ryder's performance is best judged by inspection of the neat economy of some of the interlarded jingles...
Roman Catholic Church suffers no compromise on this question. America, Jesuit weekly, printed an article which concluded: "So it is that notice is served upon America that the 'detestable thing' for which God slew Onan is to be worked for on political grounds. . . . The activity of these propagandists upon so-called scientific and humanitarian grounds seems loudly to call for a more active defense of civic integrity and personal purity against these Shavian-Wellsian-Sanger ian-Onanists who work to defile the temple of the Holy Ghost." The Commonweal, organ of the Calvert Society, replied to Margaret Sanger...
...after all," said Mr. Goldstein, "these are but superficials of this issue. The primary objection to neo-Malthusianism is that it is contrary to the natural law of human beings, it is therefore a violation of the law of God. It is the sin for which Almighty God slew Onan...
...which leave Yellowstone Park in the winter and go outside the boundaries to feed was told to me by Superintendent Albright a few weeks ago when he was our guest here in Washington. The real feature of this story was that it was not "unpitying hunters" who slew them but the natives living outside the Park. Each hunter is allowed one elk. Mr. Albright said that men, women and chldren were firing into the herd and, after it was all over, they would pick out their elk, often leaving large numbers on the ground which no one dared to claim...
...fortnight ago in Yellowstone National Park, 253 elk became restless. Ignoring the assigned boundaries of the enclave, they wandered out of the park. Unpitying hunters slew them...