Word: excelsior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ransen, Forest Warnyr of 331 Park View, Racine Wis.; Washington Park High, Racine. Hayden, Royal Clifford of 1133 West 3rd Street, Red Wing, Minn.; Albert Lee Senior High, Albert Lee Johnson. William Reynold of 129 Center Street, Excelsior Minn.; Excelsior High. Kinser, Samuel Christianson of 828 West 16th Street, Davenport, Ia.; Davenport High...
...midafternoon, with five Secret Servicemen as companions, he slipped away to a hideaway in a hotel at Excelsior Springs, 22 miles north of Kansas City. There he had a mineral bath, a rubdown, a sandwich and a glass of buttermilk. By 7 o'clock he was in bed. His aides, who were established in the eleventh-floor penthouse suite of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, were gloomy; they had felt all along that election night would be like a wake. Harry Truman woke up several times during the night and telephoned to the Muehlebach. At about...
...swung their clubs in earnest. The mobs that poured into the streets frightened the elegant aristocracy and the free-spending tourists in the Via Vittorio Veneto; these gentry, knowing they might be targets for Communist vengeance, retreated to their select caverns of safety, the cool bars of the Excelsior and Ambasciatori Hotels. There waiters whisked tables and chairs from the sidewalk cafés and clanged down the corrugated iron shutters, which did not come up again for two days. In the Excelsior bar an American matron twittered: "Oh, I saw it all-rocks flying and sticks coming down...
Guests in Charge. Next day the fat of international friendship was in the fire. With more anger than accuracy, some newspapers charged that a platoon of U.S. paratroopers was maltreating Mexicans on Mexican soil. Mexican reporters said they had been menaced by "machine guns and large combat weapons." Powerful Excelsior said the newsmen had been mistreated "simply because they were Mexicans...
...murder of gentle Senator Mauro Angulo Hernandez put many a Mexican in an eye-for-an-eye mood. To curb such barbarism, cried Supreme Court Justice Luis G. Corona, the death penalty for murder, outlawed in the federal district since 1929, ought to be reestablished. Said the conservative Excelsior. "Society is handcuffed before the criminal, and the prestige of the country demands stronger methods. The [Porfirio] Díaz dictum-catch in the act, kill on the spot-unquestionably yielded better results. ... It is urgently necessary to teach a lesson to potential murderers by means of heavy punishment." Abreast...