Crossword-Solution: MANKILLER 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Corrupt business and corrupt politics act and react, with ever increasing debasement, one on the other; the rebate-taker, the franchise-trafficker, the manipulator of securities, the purveyor and protector of vice, the black-mailing ward boss, the ballot box stuffer, the demagogue, the mob leader, the hired bully and mankiller, all alike work at the same web of corruption, and all alike should be abhorred by honest men.

Another and effective device is the so-called "mankiller." This implement pulls up the sage very successfully and drops it at certain definite intervals.

This type of dynamo has gained the name for itself of "mankiller," as its voltage becomes enormous at full load.

Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a separate adjective, its sense being usually self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater, man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating, manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped, manslayer, manstealer, man- stealing, manthief, man worship, etc.

Willie?" "Do be quiet, children," interrupted Ida, reprovingly; "now, uncle dear, won't you take us? I want some new traps badly." "What kind of traps?--mouse traps?" "_Man traps_, to be sure!" "Well, that's honest, at least, Puss." "My purposes are more murderous than Ida's," said Cornelia, laughing; "I want to buy a new _mankiller_, as Willie calls them." "It's too late in the season for mantillas," remarked Ida, profoundly.