Word: slit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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German editors last week reminded their readers that agents of Der Konsul were once not only accustomed to throw bombs and assassinate their political opponents, but also did not hesitate to slit the gullet of any of its own members who were "untrustworthy." Anxious to wipe out Der Konsul once and for all, German police arrested 40 suspects last week. Members of the German Reichstag, behind hastily reglazed windows, prepared to vote heavier penalties for persons "guilty of offenses against the security of the Republic...
Down here we don't care if all the Negroes are lynched, or even burned or slit open with knives. The outrageous, damnable, unbearable spectacle of lawlessness of the Negro is infinitely greater than would be the entire extermination of the cursed race by the white man. The Northern "nigger-lovers" are going to be forced to see our position some day. ELDON O. HALDANE Atlanta...
...unappeased, King Zog planned still a sixth palace in the ancient town of Kruga, home of Albania's 15th Century hero king, Scanderbeg the Great. Albanians recalled that at the time of King Zog's coronation last year, only the expressed intention of genuine Scanderbeg descendants to slit Zog's royal gullet dissuaded the new King from adopting the title of Scanderbeg...
...Jade God. When John Millicent stole a jade figurine out of a Hindoo temple, its baleful influence followed him to Sussex where, one evening, he was discovered lying across his desk, his throat slit. The figurine had disappeared as well as a Malay kriss which he used for a paper weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait...
...queer quirk in the whole situation was that Japan, which for months has stubbornly kept an interventionary force in Shantung, disregarding incessant Nationalist howls of protest, suddenly came to terms last week with the shaky and harassed Nationalist Government and entered into a signed agreement to withdraw her slit-eyed marines by June 1. It is common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during...