Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack begins. The attackers fire a volley from behind trees, then throw away their guns and rush the defenders with lances. If the assault is successful, slaughter is indiscriminate-except for nubile girls, who are spared if they refrain from fighting...
...Emperor Napoleon, pausing to celebrate one of his perennial triumphs in the midst of carnage was holding a grand reception in Versailles and the splendour of a continent had gathered in homage. Talleyrand was there, with the ironical manner which caused the Emperor to assault him once in Fontainebleau, and the ambassador of Alexander of Russia. To him the Emperor was particularly gracious, for he was planning to betray his master. A nuncio from the Vatican moved remotely amid the revelry. In an ante-chamber the representative of his Brittannic Majesty cooled his heels neglected, anticipating a dozen Waterloos...
...Last March First Lieutenant Francis J. Clark, U. S. Infantry, was convicted by court martial at Denver of intoxication, disorderly conduct, criminal assault. He was sentenced to be dismissed from the Army, imprisoned for six years. Reviewing the case as the Army's Commander-in-Chief, President Hoover found much hearsay evidence used to support the assault charge. Last week it was announced that the President had stricken the prison term from Clark's sentence, confirmed his dismissal...
...Hadley. Mass., vexed with his wife, Antoni Ciaglio slyly rubbed poison ivy leaves upon her clothes, her towel. The sweat of her farm work hastened the action of the poison. She almost died. Police arrested sly Antoni Ciaglio, charged him with assault...
...Buffalo, though separated from his wife for three years, Daniel Petrelli each week purchased a kiss for $1. Last week she raised the price to $5. Daniel Petrelli got mad, was arrested for assault...