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...latest 'bogey man' is that around every corner is stationed a 'Red' or a 'Bolshevik' with a bomb in his hand to blow up the Constitution of the United States unless General Dawes and his associates are called forth to defend...
British Fleet. In the manner of parlance, Sir Cecil Hurst, legal ad- viser to the Foreign Office, "dropped a naval bomb" into the Assembly, when he declared that Great Britain would accept the principle of compulsory arbitration provided that she were not brought into Court because of some act of her Navy performed in attempting to maintain or restore peace. His speech mightily pleased the French, who subsequently agreed unconditionally to the principle of arbitration in international disputes...
Fortunately, the bombs did not explode until the President was 30 yards away; when they did, no one was hurt, but ... ah, the smell! Nearby spectators fled in wildest terror as the bombs alighted on the road. When the bombs exploded and the stink arose, they fled some more, their noses clamped securely between thumb and first finger. Finally, recovering from their consternation, they seized one of the bomb-throwers and, had it not been for the police, would have seriously damaged him. The other assailant escaped...
...snowy day in Moscow, the Grand Duke Sergius was blown to pieces at the Kremlin gate?one Kalayev threw the bomb; but the man who engineered the plot was the arch-Terrorist, Gen. Boris Savinkov...
...98th year he was seated at his desk when the "Wall Street bomb'" explosion occurred. When shattered glass suddenly fell on the floor beside him, he calmly directed that it be cleaned up, proceeded with his work...