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When the smoke cleared away, the Tsar lay with his legs torn off his body, his face horribly lacerated. Pathetically he tried to raise his bloody body on his hands. A few feet away lay the second assassin, similarly injured; dead and dying lay thick around. The Tsar was raised tenderly into a police sledge, driven to the Winter Palace. In a few hours Tsar and second assassin were dead. Hundreds of arrests followed...
...fear of God bubbled like Hell's lava in the head of Bellingham; it drove him out of bed and across the arid plains of Hell under a sky monotonously grey except where the sun, a bloody red, like a huge socket from which the eye had been torn, stared sightlessly at him. In this story, the first and most powerful in the book, Mr. Gerald Bullet adeptly spins out mystification until it becomes mysticism. The Enchanted Moment tells how a certain gnome made a top-hatted, cut-awayed, striped-trousered bondholder do a dance without top hat, cutaway...
...announcement that the historic Mills Building on Broad Street, lower Manhattan, abutting the Morgan office building, will be torn down, has caused more widespread interest than usually attends such an operation...
When the Mills Building is torn down, the operation will be watched with interest. A Wall Street rumor widely believed, is to the effect that there is a secret entrance into the Morgan offices through the Mills Building, of great usefulness in balking overcurious reporters. Partners in the firm, and famed customers, too, are said to have been seen leaving the Morgan threshold , but not entering it, and vice versa. When the present Morgan building , was erected, the firm was for a time housed in the Mills Building. Wall Street will spare some hours from speculating in securities, to speculate...
...Cooperative Society yesterday finished moving into the rear of the new building on Harvard Square, which will serve as its temporary home until the front of the new structure is completed. By January 17 the wreckers will have torn down the present structure completely, and work on the new building, which will be completed by August, 1925, will begin immediately...