Word: bullet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dumped one night last week into a big hole inside bleak Jilava Fortress, near Bucharest, were the bullet-ridden bodies of 14 leaders of the Iron Guard, Rumania's suppressed, German-financed party. No one else was present when soldiers shoveled the last spadeful of cold dirt over the corpses of the young fanatics who had banded together in a Jew-baiting, terrorist group to oust the Government and set up a Nazi State in Rumania...
...first impression of many a newsreader last week was that poor little Shirley Temple was fried to a crisp; that Madeleine Carroll was dead-not by the bullet of a rival spy, but by incineration; that nothing was left of Leo Carrillo but his accent; that Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce, Miriam Hopkins, Richard Dix. June Lang and Oliver Hardy were not much better than ingredients in a huge Thanksgiving Barbecue. In the press, pictures of these notables were accompanied by such headlines as FOREST FIRES RAZE FILM COLONY HOMES, and FLAMES WRECK HOMES OF STARS; TOWNS IN PERIL...
...There must be a redistribution in Africa sooner or later"; and 3) "There is unrest among the German-speaking people of [Alsace]." This is the kind of Empire that Beaverbrook believes will best serve Britain's future and save its millions of Beaverbrook readers from becoming bomb and bullet fodder. That Lord Beaverbrook does believe in it is almost the only thing that can be said of him without dispute...
Andover gave the Yardlings some good practice on pass defense in the last period when Maury Gould opened up with some bullet passes. The Blue clicked regularly on these aerials, but the receivers were downed in their tracks for short gains for the most part. Harvard ended the Blue's offensive when a long lateral was intercepted at midfield...
...Harvard band increased in splendor and magnificence Saturday as it displayed new concoctions before the 45,000 at the Army game. For the benefit of the West Pointers, a human bullet was shot out of a huge animate machine gun with revolving drum...