Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responsible being. He knows what he is doing and does it anyway. He is a double menace to society-in plan and in deed. Hang him, If man does not enjoy free will, he is not responsible. He is then a monster-a product of a Frankenstein civilization. Destroy him-before he breeds...
...warning Western nations not to interfere in "matters concerning us alone" [i.e., pogroms]; 2) denouncing the Jews and Bolshevism; 3) claiming no one is persecuted for purely religious beliefs in Germany; 4) hailing the Rebel successes in Spain as a "valiant defeat of the newest universal attempt to destroy the European cultured world"; 5) notifying the U. S. to keep her hands off German trade with South America...
...sealed the finer blood vessels, checked hemorrhages in five to ten seconds. As soon as the discoverers are positive that they can sterilize thrombin and not destroy its potency, they expect to try it on human bleeders...
Clearly Playwright Shaw's soft-spoken melodrama is a parable of how the gentle souls of the world, taxed too far, rise up and destroy their oppressors, whether neighborhood bullies or world-famed Reichsführers. Put as blithely as Shaw puts it, it is a cheering idea. The trouble is that, while it makes The Gentle People a likable fable, it makes it an absurd play. Humorous mood and melodramatic plot refuse to jell. Murder is usually a fairly serious business, and murder conceived and carried out by two good-natured fishermen should be fairly agonizing. Instead...
...sick. Doctors were summoned and found the food had been poisoned. All the diners survived. Last week news of the poison plot leaked out through diplomatic channels when British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax sent Colonel Songgram official British condolences over the "cowardly attempt of an individual or individuals to destroy the lives" of the Premier and his dinner party...