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...moved off, a well-dressed young man answering to the name of Giovanni Corvi jumped on the rear platform, drew a revolver, fired three fatal shots at Casalini, who fell forward and remained motionless despite the pathetically desperate invocations of his frightened daughter. The assassin, having completed his ghastly deed, turned, jumped off the car, fell, picked himself up and made off, chased by an angry mob. Several shots were exchanged between chased and chasers, but without effect. Blind terror made Corvi's sprinting feat shame the legendary effort of Mercury. Faster and faster he sped over the uneven...
...common honesty I do not mean only that we shall keep our fingers out of the public pocket. I do not mean only that we shall abstain from stealing the public money or giving away the public lands. I mean honesty in thought as well as honesty in deed...
...Extraordinary Deed...
...Newburyport, Mass., one Mrs. Effie M. Beal received a letter from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, concluding: "We therefore wish to present to you, in the name of our society, its medal as a token of our admiration and high regard for this extraordinary deed of humanity...
...Beal did her deed last January. Sledding through the woods in Maine, her husband came upon an old mother bear, shot her, discovered a tiny cub between her paws. Mrs. Beal cried: "Just like my own baby," snatched the cub to her breast, took it home, suckled it with her own infant, reared it until it became large and troublesome...