Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each armed with a dagger, two Japanese patriots presented themselves respectfully and simultaneously last week upon the doorsteps of Premier Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito and of War Minister General Sadao Araki...
Discovered and overpowered in a turret of the Doom castle of Wilhelm Hohenzollern was a German armed with parabellum (50-shot automatic gun) and 12-in. dagger. To police he explained that he bore a message from Adolf Hitler, that he planned to fire the gun in the air to attract the ex-Kaiser's attention, to use the dagger on watchdogs. Hustled back to Germany, he was identified as one Heinrich Fuecker, onetime inmate of both prison and asylum. Wilhelm Hohenzollern shrugged off the incident: "It's nothing. The fellow is probably...
...have been crossing the glacial lake at whose bottom her bones were found. Perhaps she was on a raft or in a canoe, or crossing on ice. She was wearing shell pendants in her hair, around her neck. From her waist hung an apron of strung shells. A dagger of antler dangled from a thong. The Minnesota girl's bones might never have been recovered if a scientific digger had not asked a practical digger for help. Professor Jenks had arranged with the Minnesota State Highway Commission, which was putting a road through Ottertail County, to watch for fossils...
...Manhattan, a clinic patient sitting in St. Vincent's Hospital waiting room late at night saw another patient leap suddenly into the air, cry out, "I'm a fireman! I'm a fireman!" and fall back dead. Examination showed he had a dagger between his shoulder blades...
Seeking Divorce. Bror Gustave Dahlberg, 51, Swedish-born U. S. sugar tycoon, president of Celotex Co.; from Mary Alexander Dahlberg, one-book author (Dagger); in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Texas-reared Mrs. Dahlberg refused to live in the U. S., prefers Europe...