Word: assassins
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Pierre Laval, once chubbily greasy but now haggard, showed reporters a dented cuff link he said had deflected his would-be assassin's bullet last August. Meantime guards arrested a prowler with a knife on Laval's estate near Vichy...
Baron Alexander Meyendorff, relative of the assassin of Rasputin, graduate student at Harvard last year, avowed member of the Communist party, and present inmate of Ellis Island in solitary confinement, has appealed to the Harvard CRIMSON to "publish something in my behalf...
...wall behind white-bearded Leader Pechanatz hung a picture of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who shot and killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, thus started World War I. In a corner, on the floor, lay the bleached skeleton of a Chetnik hero. Said Leader Pechanatz, with a casual wave of his arm: "His mother comes to see me every few weeks. She often asks whose skeleton that is. I have never told her. I am hard, but not that hard...
...urged on by British or Russian agents provocateurs, broke loose. Still sobbing for breath after last year's man-&-heaven-made catastrophes, but with an infinite capacity for ever-new violence, Rumania plunged into another bloody exploit. The final push came from the gun of a mysterious Greek assassin named Dimitrius Sarando-whom Berlin described as carrying a Turkish passport, U. S. money, U. S. and British letters, and operating under British Secret Service orders. He killed a German General Staff officer, Major Döring...
...tranquillity in 24 hours, because I have not been and I do not want to be tomorrow the instrument of tyranny, or the bridge leading to anarchy." Troops marched into Bucharest's Greek colony, arrested ten of its leaders as hostages for Major Döring's assassin...