Word: ambushings
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...taken the Peabody Playhouse at 357 Charles Street for three months. There they will produce plays of the newer, fresher sort, that within easy recollection were novel and successful in New York; that no other hands are likely to bring hither. They are now making a beginning with "Ambush," as truthful, human, moving tragedy, in little and around the corner, as an American playwright has written. They so stage and act the piece that it barely falls short of the original performances in New York by the Theatre Guild. Fast are audiences held. A light sophisticated comedy, Harry Gribble...
...FOOTNOTE *General Collins was killed on August 22, 1922, by rebel in ambush, near Bandon, County Cork, in the 41st year of his life...
...opponents ' seemed to be the village donkey.' I was called to order and withdrew my epithet." Andrew J. Volstead: "Having been defeated for re-election to Congress, I called at the White House to pay my respects before retiring to Minnesota to practice law. Photographers leaped from ambush in the shrubbery and chased me across the lawn. Surrounded, I hauled down my colors and submitted to a few 'shots...
Mexico: General Silvino Garcia of the Mexican Federal Army was killed from ambush while inspecting small garrisons near Cordoba...
...there is great activity at the United Mine Workers' Local. The miners see their strike jeopardized by the scabs, and the community terrorized by the mine guards. Fresh arrogance by the invading company detectives fans the flames to hatred. The miners begin to arm, a group of them ambush a truck full of guards coming from Carbondale and kill three. It is the overt act of class warfare...