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...their ammunition began to run low, failure stared at them. They forced one of the guards to write a note to the warden, demanding his car to take them from the prison, threatening to blow up the building if he refused. Desperado Germano added: "Have plenty of explosives." They threw the note out of the window. Finally the answer came: a tear gas bomb. Another followed. When the third bomb came hurtling through the window Germano said...
Roseburg turned his pistol on himself. Germano sent a second bullet into Roseburg's head, then shot himself. Duver shot Germano again, put the muzzle of his pistol into his mouth, pulled the trigger. The hostage guards threw open the doors...
...Madrid someone threw a bomb into the parlor of the Portuguese Embassy. Ambassador Joao Carlos de Mello Barreto and his wife retreated hastily to the next room, waited with fingers in their ears till the bomb exploded, wrecking the furniture. Spain's President Niceto Alcala Zamora hurried round to express his deep est regrets...
...where they met, loved, became engaged, sensible Belle Case induced Robert La Follette to drop his notion of becoming a Shakespearean actor, turned his career definitely to Law & Politics. They were married in 1881. She became a politician's ideal wife. Into her husband's campaigns she threw herself with all the force of her able intellect. She kept up his faith in himself and his cause through defeat and discouragement. She was, she boasted, more radical than he. As they aged, they even came to look alike. As his silent partner she exercised great influence over Wisconsin...
...mast. King George was aboard, snugly dressed and eager for the day's sport. A squall struck the Britannia's vast mainsail. She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber. Right before King George's eyes the wash swept Second Mate Ernest Friend overboard. Sailors threw him a lifebuoy immediately. The ship luffed and signalled for help. Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V heard the cry "Man Overboard" and hove to. But it was too late. Ernest Friend never reached the floating buoy, disappeared. He left behind a widow and four children. King George called...