Word: bead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anguished but cool, the Fascist Commander whipped out his revolver, took careful aim, fired. A bullet sped, clipping a fragment out of the stone column behind which Communist Missiroli was hiding. Again the Fascist Commander took a careful bead, pulled the trigger. Communist Missiroli, with a cry of pain and rage, dropped dead...
...private cars filled with propaganda rolled out of a Chicago terminal. They held bundles of pamphlets, screeching posters, loud bulletins ablaze with declaration. Also eight bead-eyed press agents and William Hale Thompson III, more commonly known for his bulk and his battering dominion over Chicago politics as "Big Bill." They were going out among the people of the cities of Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Emporia, Topeka, Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight...
Sixth day. Flyer Schlee was given a "good luck bead," used by Turkish cabbies to decorate their horses, and he blamed the bead for the delay in Turkey. He said it worked against his rabbit's foot. The Pride of Detroit, un-superstitious machine, rose from Constantinople, flew to Bagdad, 1,075 miles, making up time...
Reinhardt v. Kaiser. The year of Reinhardt's arrival in Berlin was a period of intense realism in the Teutonic theatre, when every dunghill and sweat bead in the dialogue found its concrete embodiment on the stage. His Imperial Majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm II, would have it so, having set his imperial face against the art of Painter Lieberman, Poet Hauptmann, Composer Richard Strauss, all of whom found life so harsh as to require art's illusion to make it bearable...
...Psychical Research Society, a rather playful group of scientists including Sir Oliver Lodge. Respectful, they used no crowbar or ax. Resourceful, they peeked last week into the box with the aid of an Xray. Amused, they saw only the outlines of a horse pistol, dice box, skull, scissors, bead bag, pins, coins, rings, and what is believed to be the roll of a manuscript...