Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Government Solidarity. No less confident and popular in its territory seemed the government at Rio. Vandyke-bearded President Washington Luis who will be 60 next week, denounced the revolutionaries as senseless bloodspillers, calmed local misgivings as to the food supply by stating that Rio has in her cupboard enough to eat until the middle of November...
During the visit, while sound cameras buzzed expectantly, Prince Umberto had arrived at the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier to lay a wreath. Pistol Man de Rosa wiggled his way through surrounding guards, fired two ineffectual shots, was immediately knocked senseless. Almost as though he had expected the shots, Prince Umberto coolly proceeded with his wreath laying. The affair looked strange to reporters when it occurred. Last week as the trial progressed, it looked stranger still...
Intermittently from 1915 to 1920 a robot called Mike, then Fritz von Blitz the Kaiser's Hoodoo, then Percy the Mechanical Man, performed prodigies of senseless versatility in the U. S. funny-papers (New York Herald et al). Cartoonist Harry Cornel Greening equipped his creature with a row of buttons down the back which, when pushed, set Percy to his tasks. Only trouble-and chief source of comedy-was that, being brainless as well as tireless, Percy would keep on doing whatever he started until someone pushed another of his buttons. Thus, stoking a warship, when he had stoked...
While the police were wondering whether all this was mere publicity for "Madge Miller," Detective Sergeant Willis, who had been carried senseless to a nearby hospital, roused from his state of coma. In a few gasping sentences he sufficiently confirmed the dancer's story, then coughed, choked, died...
...came down stairs with the gun on and found Gillard beating his wife to death with a pair of heavy tongs, hitting her over the head. I attacked him empty handed. He knocked me down and I got up and went at him again. This time he knocked me senseless. My secretary at the time, a powerful Englishman, heard me call, during the fight, and rushed to my aid. He grabbed Gillard and I came to. I then drew my gun and held it hanging down in my hand, because Gillard was even more powerful than my secretary...