Word: assassins
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Japanese who assassinate their Premier, always from the most patriotic motives, now enjoy such popular éclat that the Orient marveled last week at the excessive modesty with which No. 1 Assassin Konichi Nakaoka emigrated from Japan to the wilds of her vassal state Manchukuo...
...What I did," said modest Assassin Nakaoka "most people have surely forgotten...
...trance, shrouded, while the grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from the tomb, she personally executes her would-be assassin, neatly shifts the blame to another. Between waves of goose-pimples, audiences have spells of apprehension lest good old Walter Abel get himself hanged for a deed...
...troubles, Russian recognition; prints President Roosevelt's picture 18 times. The book borrows frequently and happily from the omnipresent newsreels, more frequently but less happily from plate photographers. Rivers and dams, airviewed and minuscule, announce the Tennessee Valley Administration; nine scenes in Russia herald its recognition. Good shots: Assassin Zangara looking pleased with the headlines; a laughing lynch-crowd in California; empty freight-cars in a yard. Grisly shot: the naked, charred body of Negro Warner, lynched & burned near St. Joseph...
...surmisal that the thing was purely an inside job, and that Daniel, collar, leash, attractive physiognomy and all--fell victim to dissension within his own camp. His ministry has not been wholly a successful one, and other ministers, more handsome perhaps than Daniel, have fallen to the assassin's blade for less...