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Word: murderers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great crowd to mass their protests against the Black Duck killings, to hear speakers compare the "Newport Massacre" with the slaying of Crispus Attucks on March 5, 1770, by British redcoats. Market-men in white aprons and straw hats heard William H. Mitchell, chairman, exclaim: "When stark wholesale murder stalks abroad under the guise of any law, in God's name repeal that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Duck Aftermath | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

Graves thus sums up the life he has left behind him : "I have never mastered any musical instrument, starved, committed civil murder, found buried treasure, engaged in unnatural vice, slept with a prostitute, or seen a corpse that has died a natural death. On the other hand, I have ridden on a locomotive, won a prize at the Olympic games . . . been examined by the police on suspicion of attempted murder . . . had a statue of myself erected in my lifetime in a London park, and learned to tell the truth - nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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