Word: destroyer
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...beseeching the Federal Farm Board to reduce the U. S. wheat surplus, relieve the market, up prices by drastic action upon the Board's 200,000,000 bu. of wheat. Senator Watson as spokesman for the Senators from wheat-growing States did not seriously propose that the Board destroy its vast holdings by fire, much as such a spectacle might delight U. S. husbandmen, but he did strongly urge the Board to cease selling wheat for at least a twelvemonth...
...were appointed dictator for one hour for all India, the first thing I would do would be to close without compensation all liquor shops, destroy all toddy palms from which liquor is locally extracted, compel factory owners to produce humane conditions for workmen, and open refreshment and recreation rooms where workmen could get innocent drinks and equally innocent amusement...
...squirrel, hiding just inside the cellar entrance, darted at the Chief, fastened itself on his trouser-leg. Believing at last, the policeman calmly kicked the animal to the bottom of the stairs. It sat there, blinking up at him. It must have rabies, he thought; he must not destroy its head, which the health authorities would want to examine. Carefully he aimed his service revolver, steadily fired, blew a hole through its shoulders. Then he went down and picked up the body of a huge male fox squirrel...
...parade their magnificence? The Negroes of the South who take long days from their field and house work to commit their dead amid lugubrious festivities are not radically different from their white masters in this respect. For both, a burial is a show which the night would shroud and destroy. To most of us the earth is black enough already without darkening the sun on our last journey...
...fame. Its enemies are records and people with good memories, for legends depend on lack of evidence. Because she has become a legend in her own lifetime, Mary Pickford feels these truths strike home. Shrewdest business woman in pictures, she has been secretly buying her old pictures to destroy them, to wipe out, except in the imagination of future generations, "America's Sweetheart" of 1910 to 1930, the golden-ringleted girl who, in the changing fashions of two decades, wept, smiled, loved, pantomimed in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long Legs, Madame Butterfly. Interviewed last...