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...bomb exploded last week near the plant of La Voce Italiana in Scranton, Pa., injured three people, wrecked nearby shops, but did not damage the newspaper's press. Police searched for a possible connection between this and the bombing on New Year's Eve of the Scranton Sun, earnest crusader against crime, smallest English daily in Scranton, published by W. H. Hallstead...
...indeed more than a mere critic, more than a professor of French literature. If society in its broadest sense had the same nomenclature as political parties, he might well be called the leader of the opposition. Not that Professor Babbitt is in any sense like the much caricatured radical, bomb in hand, "agin' society": rather the opposition--, as the himself is fond of putting it--, is "the opposition of the Real to the welter of the Actual...
Seemingly the bomb was fitted with a clock work mechanism timed to explode at the instant when His Majesty was scheduled to pass. Kings, however, are too experienced to risk their lives by keeping to a time table known to every assassin. Therefore His Majesty was a good ten minutes motor ride distant when the bomb exploded. Though prudent, he is no coward. "Drive on," he said with compressed lips when told of the explosion, "Keep to the original route, through the Piazza Giulio Cesare...
...moments later the royal motor passed slowly over cobble stones still wet with blood drawn by the bomb. A pandemonium of cheering rose about His Majesty: "Viva il Re! . . . Glory to Savoy! [the Royal House] . . . Live! Long live the King...
While Heaven thus offered Consolation the earthy newshawks of Milan were busy assembling the final grisly details of the bomb-butchery. A small boy had been beheaded by a flying segment of the fatal lamp post. A young woman's leg had been cut off. An old woman had died, although unhurt, simply of fright. Saddest of all was the tragedy of a father who had learned that his wife and five children were so gravely injured that Death might be expected to lay a cold hand upon all of them within a few hours. Maddened with grief...