Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bright sunny Sunday morning, June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, accompanied by his morganatic wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, drove down the streets of Sarajevo. Soon a bomb came hurtling through the air, crashing on the roadway behind the royal automobile, exploding with a deafening roar...
Professor Gustavus W. Dyer, Vanderbilt University, broke a bomb in the national veneration for F. F. V.'s.* He said that study of Southern politics proved that Virginia before the Civil War was dominated by the middle class. Seven Governors were "aristocrats by courtesy only." He adduced other statistics reducing the governing aristocracy of the South to "a soothing but insalubrious myth." Another observation: City v. Country. "Stupendous pyramiding" of city populations has increased the differences and misunderstandings between urban and rural dwellers. Let city men improve their city government. And let country men let city...
...These attacks attracted attention. The staid New York Times editorialized: "If we are to measure out condemnation for cowardly bomb-throwers, we should not overlook men like Mr. Heywood Broun who asks in the World whether 'The institution of learning in Cambridge which we once called Harvard will be known as Hangman's House?' " *The World has not been sympathetic with the Sacco-Vanzetti prosecution...
...Manhattan, a scrawny little character scurried up Sixth Avenue, peering in a timid manner at elevated trains, passersby. On the lookout for anarchists about to bomb subway stations, Patrolman William Burns, wearing official trousers, civilian coat, as he returned to his 4 a. m. beat, gave chase. "Stop!" he bellowed, lumbering after his prey. Scared, the little man he was chasing ducked into a bystreet. "They must be after somebody," he thought. "I don't want to get hit if they start shooting." Patrolman Burns, scenting adventure, shot twice into the air to make an effect...
Certain detectives sent to "take Jesse James dead or alive" adopted the questionable expedient of tossing a bomb into his house which killed his youngest brother and tore off the arm of his mother, this at a time when Jesse was some miles distant. Thereafter Jesse considered that society had defied him to do his worst and he did it. He was shot in the back, at last, while in the act of straightening a motto on the wall, by a man who. had been his friend but yielded to the temptation of a $10,000 reward...