Word: assassine
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...close to death from the blow of a political assassin, who struck me in my room. I struggled with him. He had entered the room to talk about French statistics. He struck me. Please say to our friends: I am sure of the victory of the Fourth International. Go Forward...
Three days later a slim, elegant little Chinese newsman, Samuel Chang, sat down to tiffin in a German tea shop on Bubbling Well Road. Up stepped a stranger, whipped out two guns, and pumped four shots into Samuel Chang's back. Then the assassin rushed into the street, followed by another patron. Turning, he put two bullets in his pursuer's stomach, and fled. Newsman Chang died instantly, his champion (a Pole named Vladislav Krasson) an hour later. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, 40-year-old Samuel Chang was a director...
...emergency and every defense." But it was most telling and it drew most applause in its condemnation of the dictatorial way of life-the way of force, of "deliberate contempt" of moral values, of treachery and double-dealing, the way that had come to its great climax in the assassin lunge of Italy upon stricken France. Three months ago, said the President, Mussolini had sent him word that Italy was determined to prevent the spread of war to the Mediterranean. The U. S. Government had concurred, had offered to approach Britain and France-about Italy's territorial claims, about...
Said Newsman Philip: "At least let me die with my boots on." While he struggled with his boots, stalling for time, gendarmes arrived and put him under arrest. Through lines of indignant peasants, spitting insults at "the Boche assassin," the gendarmes marched him to the police station. There his credentials were examined again, found in order. Two young lieutenants took pity on the Times'?, Philip, escorted him back to the railway, and turned him over to the stationmaster's wife. She took him up to her kitchen while he waited for another train, made him an omelet, gave...
...Fred Sullens was no man to let up. "In his verbal hemorrhage . . . judgepaul-bulljohnson denounced the editor of the Daily News as a cowardly assassin of character or something to that effect. . . . Our plea is not guilty. We have never assassinated the character of the most dangerous demagogue who ever afflicted a long-suffering commonwealth...