Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being a deputy sheriff and a railroad special agent. He was deeply impressed by the fact that Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley had met violent deaths. As he understood it, his job was to keep that sort of thing from happening again. If there was an infernal machine or an assassin's bullet being planned for the Chief Executive, Colonel Ed figured that his life was worth less than the President...
Everywhere grey, genial Custodian Cook, veteran of seven inaugurations and countless special appearances, posted guards against bomb, crackpot or assassin. Two were even assigned to the great three-foot air ducts, lest somebody crawl in and loose poison gas to be swept into the House chamber through the vent over the Speaker's chair...
Both Charlie Chaplin and U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew were once marked for Japanese assassin's bullets, in an attempt to get the United States to declare war, it was revealed by Grew in a feature article in the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin discussing the Nipponese tradition of political murder...
Shot on July 2, 1881, Garfield died 78 days later, because his doctors, headed by his boyhood friend, Dr. D. W. Bliss, could not locate the assassin's bullet in his abdomen. By using an electromagnet, Telephonist Alexander Graham Bell had figured out the general location of the bullet (see cut), but no operation was performed. A more accurate guess (through deduction) by Anatomist Feneuil Dunkin Weisse was also disregarded, but later proved by autopsy. A wag cracked: "When ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be Weisse." Two Points. Even though X-ray has long been...
...gives her reputation-to throw the inspector off the scent, she lets herself be discovered in Dr. Svoboda's bedroom by her fiancé (Dennis O'Keefe); and a local quisling (Gene Lockhart) whose double framing as both Heydrich's and the inspector's assassin solves two dilemmas with one bold stroke. Director Lang tells this story with real suspense, but seldom warms it with genuine emotion...