Word: slewed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the Genro. Scouring Tokyo and suburban resorts, more mustards slew the Inspector General of Military Education, jovial General Jotaro Watanabe. They gravely wounded the Son of Heaven's Grand Chamberlain, doughty Admiral Kantaro Suzuki. They set fire to a beach hotel from which had escaped venerable Count Nobuaki Makino, for many years Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and one of the very few Japanese whom constant duty and association have brought humanly close to the Divine Emperor...
...every village compound, among the squalid mud huts, savage priests shouted the liturgy in the obscure language of Geez, slew sheep and cattle for a sacrifice and the warriors drank the hot blood. The old men shouted tall tales of past Ethiopian glories. The chiefs put on their lion-mane collars. The warriors took up their fighting arms, their wives, their pots and the village set out for the capital of the superior chief, leaving behind only the old, infirm and infantile...
...France had cashed in on its present position of friend to every European power except Germany by borrowing Italian masters from the museums of Russia, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, even Hungary. Germany surprisingly promised a slew of pictures, finally sent just two Tintorettos from the Dresden collection. But of the 490 pictures in last week's Italian Exhibition, Benito Mussolini had supplied...
...every English crime fancier recalls, the legs, though obviously male, had been femininely peroxided and powdered. Suspicion has been strong that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman...
...minute you start remembering back you realize what a slew of things you been through and you gotta pretend you are telling someone so you can pick out what you remember the best, like my old man fighting with my mother...