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Word: billingshurst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...foot-flat, is a molecule of a man, an explosive molecule. Brown as a berry, he has been fighting all his life. He is scarred with 16 gunshot wounds. In 1914 leading a revolution against the then President of Peru (who bore the good Nordic name of George E. Billingshurst) three fingers of his left hand were shot away. In 1921 in an unsuccessful revolution against President Leguia his right arm was crippled and part of his skull crushed. Singlehanded this pocket wildcat silenced a machine-gun nest, received 14 more bullet wounds. Exiled in 1922, he filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Ya Ha Firmado | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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