Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black cloth, Chinese cameramen began to snap. Suddenly out of a Chinese camera was whipped a pistol. Bang, bang, bang! Three bullets winged Premier Wang in the arm, neck and abdomen. As he crumpled, the pantherlike Generalissimo and China's whole quick-triggered élite were returning the assassin's fire...
...Other press names for Louis: Brown Bomber, Ring Robot, Alabama Assassin, Dead-Pan Joe, Sepia Slasher, Dark Angel, Tan Thunderbolt, Detroit Dynamiter, Wildcat Warrior...
...Vagabond lay musing in his Tower last evening and weaving many a journey for his gentle readers he received a call which was as a bucket of water to the fire in his hearth or as an assassin to those warm spirits who occupy his Sanctum in the mellow hours of the evening. It was from one of his superiors--and a voice much too harsh for the peace of his walls--advising the Vagabond to change his ways: To get out into the sun and feel from those deep philosophical thoughts which have darkened his journeys of late...
...Associated Press was full of apologies because its purported picture of Mrs. Carl A. Weiss Jr., widow of Long's assassin, was really a picture of Miss Helen Bell of New Orleans...
...blow to the chin before sixty bullets left the revolvers of armed bodyguards to pepper his body. From all reports he could have been tied up, taken to jail, and given a fair trial. Courts act quickly in such cases. This is what happened to Zangara, the would-be assassin of President Roosevelt, and to the slayers of Garfield and McKinley; yet the scene in the Louisiana state capitol resembled the settling of accounts between rival gangs...