Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the public eye must focus on the "Peace of God," and since the vox populi must cheer him, Signor Mussolini withdrew the competition of his own presence. Having greeted the Amir at the station, Il Duce slipped out a side door, sped away down back streets in his bullet-proof limousine. Meanwhile Amir and King stepped into an open carriage. Outriders cracked their whips. The pageant moved...
Death came last week to Adolf A. Joffe who put an end to his life by firing a bullet through his brain. For several years be had suffered intensely from polyneuritis (inflammation of several trunk nerves), aggravated by kidney trouble and heart disease. No motive other than to end his misery is ascribed to the suicide...
Just before the first rays of the sun appeared in the east he was divested of his U. S. bullet-proof waistcoat and led out to meet his death. He presented a strange appearance -this onetime truculent "El Hombre Sin Vicios" ("The Man Without Vices"). Gone were his Kaiser-like mustachios-he had shaved them off to prevent recognition. His cheeks were sunken and his clothes literally hung on his torso; for in his hunted life in the mountains he had suffered the privations of cold and hunger...
...hamlet of Teocelo, Vera Cruz. With him died his nephew, Lieut. Col. Francisco Gomez Vizcarra. Shortly afterwards, Federal troops also shot General Adalberto Palacios, Colonel Salvador Costanos, Major Francisco Meza Perez. Their bodies were all shipped to Mexico City, where their relatives claimed them. Each showed a bullet hole through the temple...
Fortunately, the president escaped serious injury. The bullet passed through his hat and grazed his right temple, splintering the bone. He was immediately driven to the hospital, where he was able to walk to the operating room. His face suffered minor cuts from the splintered glass. His condition was said to be satisfactory, but the Athenians worried over him fearing that the shock would be more than his age could stand...