Word: hail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late Bulgarian news read by ex-Exile Radoslavoff, told how Prime Minister Liaptcheff had foiled assassins when he returned to Sofia last week, by train instead of automobile, from ceremonies at Kritschin. Detective Phileon Alexandroff, who followed with the Prime Minister's car, drove into a hail of rifle bullets near Philippopolis, was killed...
...father of seven, was one of those who died. Stefan Raditch crumpled with a bullet in his stomach. Fifty days later, in Zagreb, Croatian Capital, he died. That was last summer. To Croats, still, the name Raditch means Hero and Martyr. They gather in thousands to cry "Zhivoi Raditch! (Hail Raditch!)." Impatiently have they waited to be avenged...
...prolongs a confession at the women's panel, chides the penitent for lying, suggests that she say a little prayer whenever she feels she is going to lie. Then he turns to the other side of the confessional, hesitates, says three "Our Fathers" and three "Hail Marys," and growls to the drunk: "Step lively there; this is King and Yonge. Do you want to go past your stop?" The drunk lumbers off. The priest looks forward to a sleepless night...
...when President Hindenburg was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . . Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. . . . I hail the Bremen and the Europa as new links between Europe and America. I hail them as manifestations of the indestructible German capacity for work. ... I christen thee Bremen!" One of the two new links between Europe and America was shattered last week, at a single blow. Aboard the nearly completed...
...nevertheless upon the latest Merchant Marine Act (Jones-White) under which eleven great Shipping Board vessels were recently sold (TIME, Feb. 18). All day every day during Senate sessions he can be found in his aisle seat, behind an embankment of papers and books, hard at work. No hail-fellow-well-met, he is not on easy, congenial terms with the average handshaking, backslapping Senators. His Republican colleagues preferred Indiana's easy-going Watson to him as Republican leader to succeed Charles Curtis...