Word: assassine
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...standing with his flashlight upraised, his camera trained on the patriarchal President at the precise instant when a tall, burly Russian bounded forward and fired point-blank at M. Doumer with a Colt pistol. Instantly dropping his flashlight, Photographer Piston wielded his camera like a club, beating the assassin over the head, stunning him momentarily-and throwing away the chance to make a Picture of the Century...
King Vittorio Emanuele III telegraphed personally from Rome to Paris. King George V ordered his private secretary to keep in constant telephonic touch. Premier Mussolini, informed of the crime while in the Chamber of Deputies, blazed: "The assassin struck not one man but wounded and humiliated all humanity!" President Hoover cabled, "The attempt ... of a dastardly assassin shocks and saddens...
...Monte Carlo the assassin's wife returned from evening service at a Nice church, was arrested, grilled. Said she: "My husband told me he had gone to Paris to attend a book sale and sell some of his poetry. Now I think of it he did say: 'You'll soon hear great things of me!' But I thought he meant he expected to sell a lot of books...
...assassin, one Goro Hishinuma, did not break down under a police third degree. This was not strange. Now in progress is a series of assassinations about which the Tokyo police undoubtedly do not want to learn too much. One by one Japan's men-of-peace-and-goodwill have fallen, done to death by assassins...
...next revealed that Dr. Dan had been one of the Japanese financiers who recently called War Minister Araki on the carpet and cautioned him about Shanghai spendings. The assassin's pistol proved to be a Browning (Japanese navy type) exactly similar to the Browning which killed Japan's No. 2 Peace Man Inouye. The assassin of that third Peace Man who was the first to fall, Premier Hamaguchi, had not been brought to trial up to last week, his case having been delayed 16 months...