Word: assassins
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...Since then he has roamed over half the world chopping logs, working in restaurants, printshops. He was employed in a Hartford tire factory when he began to write his first short stories, invariably waste-paper-basketed when they were finished. Widely-acclaimed books followed: The Informer, Mr. Gilhooley, The Assassin, The Mountain Tavern, The House of Gold, The Return of the Brute, Two Years...
...every correspondent in Tokyo knows, the present Government of fox-bearded Premier ("Old Fox") Inukai is heavily dependent on Japan's various supernationalistic secret societies. It did not, take the police long to discover that Mr. Inouye's pale little assassin was a member of a society known as the Seisanto which in turn is an offshoot of the formidable Kosuikai or Black Dragon Society, closely allied to the War Party of Premier Inukai...
...tradition Assassin Booth, as he leaped from Lincoln's box to the stage, cried "Sic Semper Tyrannis." One E. V. McGinnis of St. Louis whose great grandfather was Booth's physician and whose grandfather was sitting in the Ford's Theatre audience on the evening of April 14, 1865, claims that what Booth really said was: "I'm sick?send for McGinnis...
...pathologist, gathered in the offices of Dr. Orlando Scott to examine the mummified remains of one John St. Helen. They thumped it, felt it. x-rayed it. Then they gravely nodded their heads and all but announced that the mummy was none other than that of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Lincoln...
Three days later, however, 14 persons appeared outside the White House as "hunger marchers." In a cold drizzle they unfurled their banners ("Mr. Hoover, We Demand Food & Lodging," "Mr. Hoover You Have Money for the Entertainment of the Fascist Assassin Grandi."). Promptly the police pounced on them, arrested all 14 for parading without a permit. Their leader, one Herbert Benjamin, loudly explained that when Congress sits (Dec. 7), 1,300 "hunger marchers" would be in Washington demonstrating for relief...