Word: bolo
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...Pito Gualto, stabbed him over the heart. He turned and stabbed Pito Gualto's nephew. Then Julian Marcelino, a slightly dazed expression on his small brown face, descended into the street and quietly, efficiently, went amok. Proceeding at an even dog trot, a knife fashioned out of a bolo (native blade) in each hand, he skewered an aged grocer as he stood in his store doorway, then an amazed bystander on the sidewalk, then three Filipinos in a row. People ran screaming in all directions. When Officer Gordon Jensen, returning from a football game, saw him, Julian Marcelino...
...World War found him an old man, supposedly retired from public life, but known all over France for his incessant warnings against the armed menace of Germany. France turned to him. As Premier and War Minister he hounded such spies as Bolo Pasha to death, championed Foch and rushed out to the fighting front every few days to see how things were going for himself. At that period he had one motto, one battle cry: "Je fais la guerre. Je fais la guerre. Je fais la guerre...
...Premier Paul Painlevé, followed by his ministers, took his seat on the Government bench, the Right parties of the Chamber arose, yelled: "Amnesty for Lenoir and Bolo Pasha."* The Premier began to read his ministerial policy. He touched upon the War sacrifices made by France. "Caillaux, get up the dead!" cried deputies (the bitter insinuation that the dead were turning in their graves because the hated Caillaux was again Minister of Finance...
Later, in President Peret's office, M. Magne declared that the insulting word had not been intended for ex-Premier Painlevé, but "as a simple commentary on défaitists [name given to the pacifists during the war] like Bolo, Duval and Almerleda." The insult had been provoked by M. Mandel. This explanation was made public in the Chambre and was accepted...
...court composed of four Americans and three Filipinos sentenced one Isaac Perez, Municipal Secretary of the town of Pilar, to two months and one day in prison for sedition. Perez was tried for having declared that the Filipinos should behead General Wood with a bolo because the Governor opposed Philippine independence. Two Filipino judges dissented...