Word: dagger
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John Carradine, Hollywood cloak-&-dagger character actor, was arrested and released on $2,000 bail after his ex-wife complained that he was about to leave California without paying up the $4,116 back alimony she says he owes...
...common, dangerous enemy-dwindled away, relations obviously worsened. Peace disclosed deep conflicts of purpose and method which in future decades would try the skill of diplomats and the wisdom of statesmen. But many of the last two months' "issues" were mere pinpricks and needle jabs, magnified to dagger thrusts by the tension of the times. Already some of them looked pretty silly...
Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson will have three top assistants: Major General William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, head of the cloak-&-dagger OSS; U.S. Assistant Attorney General Francis M. Shea; and railway attorney Sidney S. Alderman. They have...
Into the Allied net swam the second biggest fish yet caught: smooth, grey Franz von Papen, 6 5-year-old ex-Chancellor, longtime instrument of German dagger diplomacy. Only Rudolf Hess, who had flopped up on the bank of his own accord, was a greater prize...
...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, bullyboy and cloak-&-dagger man, who in 1936 took part in the bloody coup against the Government. In 1937 he ordered the bombing of the U.S.S. Panay. His motto: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit and talk...