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While Premier Mussolini disported himself in Tripoli, the white-haired Irishwoman who attempted to assassinate him (TIME, April 19) sat in a prison cell in Rome, closely watched by Italian nuns...
Bullet. Amid delirious cheering, Signor Mussolini quitted the Capitol and strode toward his automobile. In the general excitement no one noticed a wild-eyed white-haired Irishwoman who sprang up beside the Premier's motor and thrust a small object at him with both hands. Her gesture was not that of a woman pointing a revolver. II Duce, intent upon his thoughts, did not notice the blue steel muzzle trained upon his temple. As a band struck up the Fascist hymn, "Giovinezza," he threw back his head and fixed his eyes on a staff flying the Italian flag. The bullet...
...experienced ones got $15. The strike had been coming for a long time, and when it came they were quite ready to listen to the taut harangs of Strike Leader Albert Weisbord (a graduate of the Harvard Law School) and to the words of Elisabeth Gurley Flynn, a wild Irishwoman who could fire a meeting like a cigaret in shavings. They had been listening to her that afternoon. She had sent them out to march past the mill...
...black-browed millionaire was murdered on the eve of his wedding. Of the dozen or two people in the play, nearly every one was suspected at one time or another; but the burden of suspicion fell on a discarded mistress, her two sons, a Kaffir servant and a stout Irishwoman included in the name of comedy. All these and the others were collected in the final scene before the District Attorney, who proceeded to carve out the culprit in time for an eleven o'clock curtain. No notable acting enlivened these proceedings, though the general average was steadily good enough...
...Many of your countrymen claim that man is naturally a 'fighting animal' and that war will always be part of life. It is true that man is a fighting animal. You've probably heard the story of the Irishwoman who was waving a delighted farewell to the British troops leaving Ireland. She said: 'Good-by, good-by, me darlints, now at last we'll be able to fight in pace.' Let's fight not 'in piece,' but for peace...