Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact steadied the country-the Washington administration was on the eve of a change, a New Deal. When that prospect was threatened last week by crazy bullets fired at the President-elect in Miami, people seemed to feel that their faith in the future was also the assassin's target. At a tense psychological moment, Mr. Roosevelt's escape and cheerful reaction had a buoyant effect far beyond anything President Hoover could have said or done...
Thus bouncing around on the trunk rack the would-be assassin of the next President rode first to the hospital to unload his victims, then to Miami's skyscraper jail where he was stripped and safely locked up on the 21st floor...
...President Hoover until he read, tore out and stuffed in his pocket a newspaper clipping that said President-elect Roosevelt would visit Miami in two days. With the .32-calibre revolver, which he got from the pawnshop without need of permit or self-identification, he was a fully equipped assassin...
Because of something recognizably superior in the Arliss personality, one finds a peculiarly human atmosphere in all his films. The author of "Up from Blooms bury" has an inherent gift that makes it not only believable but transparently natural that, for instance, an assassin who took some rather inaccurate pistol shots at him in the first part of the show, should later stand amongst an admiring crowd, reverently whispering "The king, the kind...
...Assassin Petroff was taken to jail, Assassin Trojanoff, gravely wounded, went to Alexander Hospital. There last week his troubles seemed to be over. Two policemen guarded the end of the ward. Competent Sister Catherine Konstantinoff moved quietly among the beds. Late at night she paid a last visit to the ward. She bent over Christo Trojanoff, smoothed his pillow, patted his head, then pulled a pistol from under her apron and blew his brains...