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Word: blaha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be Blankinship men. Only one Player on gobs' team, and he is substitute, so Navy will see Spector when Oakes Fleps passes to a Muse Crimson stands. Harvard linemen not Green; each one can stand Gaffney can dish it out. Odds are on Navy, but that is all Blaha, so take Page from Huey and faites vos jeux. But sailors will go to town in evening when is question of Boston Daughters, not can she, but Wilsie be Struck by Navy. Harvard 14, Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAGE OF AGE FEELING ROSY SO 'PREDICTS SMASHING WIN | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

...three idlers and a policeman. One Genoese bombing almost coincided with the arrival of King Vittorio Emanuele. In September another bomb went off in a Genoese apartment, killing the mother of one Domenico Bovone. Police immediately arrested Bombmaker Bovone and eight co-plotters, including a Viennese dancer named Margherita Blaha with whom Conspirator Bovone had been touring the country in an expensive motor car. Fortnight ago they were ordered to trial before a military tribunal. On that day in Rome arrived the ashes of Anita Garibaldi, wife of Italy's famed liberator. With hundreds of other black-shirted patriots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bullets in the Back | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...tribunal promptly sentenced Bo-vone and Sbardellotto to death, Signorina Blaha and five others to 30 years' imprisonment, the remaining two men to ten years. Bovone signed a plea for clemency, Sbardellotto scornfully waved the paper aside. Next morning at daybreak in the courtyard of Fort Bravetta they were chained to chairs. While 500 militiamen shouted, "A Noi!" (To us!), a firing squad smashed the plotters' backs with hard Fascist bullets. "For Benito Mussolini!" cried the commander. "Forward March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bullets in the Back | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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