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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Corruption | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Noble Expiation | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...From hashishin, as the Old Man's followers were called, comes "assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: Nicolo, Maffeo, Marco | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mussolini Trionfante | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...fury because Mr. Houghton allegedly said a great many desperately important things, if they are true, which the Senator felt the Administration should either stand behind or keep secret. Cried Senator Harrison: "There is no one who does harm and injury that can be condemned more than the assassin who conceals himself behind some bush and fires unnoticed the shot into the back of the passing victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nought on Stumbles | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

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