Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...towns seem fated to be. At night, however, outward ugliness vanishes and the pensive statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses of human society . . . the ugly crazy twist in the mind of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz . . . the ugly, crazy twists in the minds of gunmen from many a Midland city, for whom Canton has long been a safe rat-nest between shootings . . . the stunted, poisoned twists in the minds of Canton politicians who sell these gunmen protection...
...State Department issued a disquieting warning to U. S. diplomats abroad. The warning advised taking precautions against having the respective diplomats' heads shattered and the respective diplomats' houses blasted by bombs from incensed radicals and Communists. As a result of the conviction of two Italian gunmen (Sacco and Vanzetti) who are under death sentence for murder in Massachusetts, U. S. diplomatic missions in Paris, Sofia, Lisbon, Buenos Aires and Montevideo have been bombed or threatened. In several instances buildings were damaged but no loss of life has been reported. Foreign sympathizers with the convicts declare the Italians are being punished...
...greet the criminals of America, the convicts toward whom we as a society have dealt in anger instead of in a spirit of fraternal love; the ex-convicts hounded by the police and generally denied employment; also the so-called murderers, thieves, gunmen, crooks, harlots and other men and women of the underworld who may still be at large and following the arts of hate and fear because we, their brothers and sisters, failed to warm their lives with the fires of fraternity and love...
...Edda, invited to go for a motor trip by friends at Parma, telegraphed her father for permission. When the answer was delayed she replied to entreaties that she "come along anyhow": "Non! I am a disciplined Fascist. Without permission from my Duce* I refuse to move!" Near Leghorn, squadristi (gunmen) riddled a railway coach which they thought contained Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist Party and "big personal friend" of Benito Mussolini. Signer Farinacci, having chanced to miss his train, escaped death. Foiled, the squadristi vowed that he had ordered them to murder numerous Masons at Florence (TIME...
...Louis the Baltimore crime was repeated, this time by five intrepid gunmen...