Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near the end of the long underground corridor, the sight of a gray naval gun can be discerned in the dim, half-light. Here in one corner is a deep sea bomb. A man is painting a periscope from a submarine in another part of the room. The Naval Science Department has asked for the use of Memorial Hall as its base, but they have been granted only a section in one of the remote parts of the basement. Once again the martial beat is in the heart...
News of this outrage reached London only a few days after the use of bombing planes had been denounced as "horrible"' in the House of Commons by kind-hearted Leader Stanley Baldwin of the ruling Conservative Party. On top of such a speech, His Majesty's Government could scarcely threaten, in writing, to bomb Abyssinians into letting Kenya alone. Obviously, too, His Majesty's Government cannot afford to police the whole Kenya frontier. What to do? Staring His Majesty's Government in the face was the fact that over 1,000 Kenyans have been killed this...
Meanwhile Havana was ominously quiet. One Jose Davila Valdez, with both his arms blown off, went on trial before a military court charged with setting off the bomb that maimed him. On his return from another military trial. Socialite Ignacio Mendoza de la Torre slipped from his guards, escaped...
Several Italian-anti-Fascists (kept back from the Rex at Nice by vigilant French police who feared a bomb plot): "Abbasso Fascismo! Down with Fascism! Abbasso Mussolini...
...middle of the night, a bomb placed under the rear porch wrecked the Worcester, Mass, home of 74-year-old Judge Webster B. Thayer, smashed hundreds of windows in the neighborhood, roused the entire city. Five years ago Judge Thayer condemned Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti to death. Despite hundreds of threatening letters, this was the first attempt on his life. Mrs. Thayer and maid were buried under debris, taken to a hospital not seriously injured. The judge was untouched. Said he: "They can't kill me that easily. I hate to think because a man does his duty...