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...Howard Beach, Queens, N. Y., George Hoffman, 3, prize baby in Rockaway baby parades, pulled the trigger of a shotgun, instantly killing his uncle, Frank 0. Hoffman...
First of all, there is a capable chorus, the "gentlemen of Japan," forthright in song, mincing in pantomime, hair-trigger with the fan. Then there are three most excellent characterizations: the Lord High Executioner, the Lord High Everything Else, and the Mikado. Mr. William Danforth, as the Mikado, is a player most perfectly in the Gilbertian tradition. His devastating Oriental grin stretches permanently from ear to ear; he rocks with noiseless merriment as Ko-Ko tells of the deadly snickersnee; he recites the list of hand-tailored punishments aimiably through his teeth, till suddenly his blood-curdling laugh, like Mephistopheles...
...publishing plant of Berlin's world-famed Socialist daily Vorwdrts ( Forward!"). Shooting from behind their presses, Socialist pressmen repulsed invading Fascists who, however, severely-wounded two pressmen. Later a sniper concealed in the Vorwarts building pointed a shotgun at Fascists marching past in the street, squeezed the trigger, badly wounded one Fascist...
Lawyer Darrow's whole case was based on the assumption that Lieut. Massie, in a fit of insanity induced by the confession of his wife's ravisher, actually did pull the trigger that resulted in Kahahawai's death. If the young husband who held the gun and did not recall firing it could be cleared by the jury, the case against the other three defendants in no way linked to the shooting would also fall flat...
...Massachusetts went to Schenectady, impersonated an embattled farmer, fired a "shot heard round the world." In a broadcasting studio radio technicians wielded powder horn, ramrod and wadding, loaded a Revolutionary Brown Bess flintlock. At 7:30 a. m., hour when the Concord skirmish began, Governor Ely nervously pulled the trigger. It clicked inef⅛fectively-an official fired a revolver. In ⅛ of a second the sound was flashed to Kootwijk, Holland, relayed to Bandung, Java, thence to Sydney, Australia and back to Schenectady...