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...Paul Berlenbach that the latter fell down and reclined on his side, head, ear, shoulders, hips and legs. The referee's arm began to rise and fall and a great crowd rose in pandemonium, for it was a fact patent to all that if burly Berlenbach ("the Astoria Assassin") did not get up shortly, Delaney would be the light-heavyweight champion of the world. For a moment everybody began to feel sorry for the prone ex-taxi-driver, one of the most unpopular plug-uglies that has ever held a world's title, but yet an individual that...
...plot. Premier Mussolini appeared on the "fatal" balcony before a crowd of at least 100,000 Fascists, packed so tightly that it was impossible to lift hands to clap. He cried: "You are here in such numbers that it is clear that, if I had fallen under the assassin's blow, not a tyrant would have died but a humble servant of the nation who daily gives his whole self to the cause of his country...
...themselves against the dampness and their own depression in the various bars and blind tigers of middle Manhattan, "when he meets this ham Berlenbach. . ." It was fashionable to finish the sentence with a flow of Elizabethan verbiage, accompanied by gestures illustrating the physical distress which would afflict The Astoria Assassin when subjected to violence on the part of Slattery...
...French Governor of Martinique, going home on vacation, was shot five times through the window of the steamer's salon before the ship sailed from Port de France. The Governor was critically wounded. The would-be assassin surrendered, said he wished to kill the Governor because his own father had been killed in May in an election riot which the Governor had failed to prevent...
Twenty-five years ago, on July 29, the crack of an assassin's gun was heard in Rome: King Umberto had been murdered. Twenty-five years ago, on August 9, Prince Vittorio Emanuele was proclaimed King...