Word: assassinate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archconspirator Gachinovich had been obliged to flee to Switzerland, but Bosnian rebels went to confer with him and at these conferences the details of Franz Ferdinand's assassination were worked out. Student Princip, the actual assassin, was designated by Vladimir Gachinovich as his trustiest and most intimate friend. Too intellectual to risk being present when the shots that started the War were fired, Vladimir Gachinovich also did not feel called upon to enlist or fight, stayed on quietly at Lausanne where he peacefully died...
Japanese who assassinate their Premier, always from the most patriotic motives, now enjoy such popular éclat that the Orient marveled last week at the excessive modesty with which No. 1 Assassin Konichi Nakaoka emigrated from Japan to the wilds of her vassal state Manchukuo...
...What I did," said modest Assassin Nakaoka "most people have surely forgotten...
...held prisoner in a bawdy house, goes West to dig gold, loses his leg in a bear trap, is attacked by Indians led by a Harvard-educated chief. Convincingly scalped, he makes a precarious living in a sideshow, acts as a clown in vaudeville, finally bows to a Communist-assassin's bullet, and becomes in death the martyred hero of the fascist "Leather Shirts." a nationwide organization fostered by Lemuel's canny friend. Shagpoke. Pitkin's Birthday is made a national holiday, and Shagpoke's leather-shirted, coonskin-hatted legions. 100,000 strong, parade...
...trance, shrouded, while the grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from the tomb, she personally executes her would-be assassin, neatly shifts the blame to another. Between waves of goose-pimples, audiences have spells of apprehension lest good old Walter Abel get himself hanged for a deed...