Word: assaulters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delivered a funeral oration, picturing the fate of the 1,500 Germans sentenced for sabotage in the Ruhr. Crying "Down with the Republic! Down with the Jews!" the howling mass of monarchists seized republican flags and tore them up. Cavalry squadrons of Reichswehr charged the monarchists and ended their assault on the flag of the Reich. Their cheers for Hitler and Ludendorff broke up the marching order of 30 nationalist organizations and destroyed their treasonable emblems. Scores were hurt in the fighting...
...next day he listened, from 9:30 a.m. till 7 p.m., while Senator after Senator rose to the attack. The strongest assault on his position was made oy Senator Henri de Jouvenal, proprietor of the Matin, who pointed out that the British economies had not required decrees for their accomplishment. Finally at 7 o'clock, facing a talked-out and hungry Senate, he rose and announced his intention of delivering a two-hour speech. He offered his hearers the choice of submitting to it then, or of waiting until after dinner. The Senate chose to dine, and returned...
...Chesterton: "Peggy O'Neil, American actress, wrote a letter to a London newspaper asserting that the Englishman's breakfast of bacon and eggs reduces the originality of his outlook. She pleaded for more fruit. Said I: 'If there is anything to justify armed assault on the United States it is their attempt to introduce iced water and fresh fruit in bulk to the English breakfast table...
Hisses, jeers and shouts from the radicals. They rushed forward and tried to shove Howat back on the platform. "Shooter" Smith, a gray-bearded mountaineer from Tennessee, William Blizzard of West Virginia and their followers repulsed the assault. More jeers and booes as Howat retired defeated...
...fashioned padlocks, four of them on one door with heavy sheet iron plates on either side formerly protected the passage up the stairs to the bell. The time-honored custom of stealing the tongue of the bell or otherwise disabling it necessitated these heavy fortifications to guard it from assault. All of these locks remain as witnesses of the old times, but they are no longer used. As Mr. Conant said: "Those days are pretty nearly faded out; there's only one door used now with a modern Yale lock on it. You see, in the old days when there...