Word: assassin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brooding over Canton, which is as ill-favored as growing industrial towns seem fated to be. At night, however, outward ugliness vanishes and the pensive statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses of human society . . . the ugly crazy twist in the mind of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz . . . the ugly, crazy twists in the minds of gunmen from many a Midland city, for whom Canton has long been a safe rat-nest between shootings . . . the stunted, poisoned twists in the minds of Canton politicians who sell these gunmen protection...
Their mother and the Vails found out as soon as they reached the garage. . . . Evidently an assassin, lurking behind the shelter of a rose bush, loosed deadly fire just as Mellett was shutting the doors. One of the slugs had gone in behind his ear, causing instant death...
Next day a royal command was borne to Matasaro Namba. Bowing humbly he received it. Perhaps it was the will of Prince Hirohito that the family of his would-be assassin should perform some even harsher expiation...
...From hashishin, as the Old Man's followers were called, comes "assassin...
Simultaneously a raging crowd of Fascists were paying no attention to the sex or age of his would-be assassin. As a policeman tried to drag her to safety, sharp fingernails clawed at her neck, her arms. The mob was on the point of ending her life by crunching slimy means...