Word: krai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fired back. . . . As Chief Ikonomoff searched rapidly in the dark hallway of his home, vivid questions may have flashed before his mind. Who was the bomber? Perhaps an accomplice seeking to avenge the three political "outs" who were executed (TIME, June 8, 1925), after they blew up the Sveti Krai Cathedral, in Sofia, just before a state funeral. Or perhaps the bomb thrower was "just a man with a grudge." There was no telling. In Bulgaria the Tsar sometimes finds poison in his dessert (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925) ; and a Premier may be prostrated but scarcely surprised...
Chicken In Chicago, a policemen, one Sergeant Krai, bought a dozen fresh eggs for his wife, negligently left them in his locker at the police station. Two days later detectives heard strange sounds-cacklings, scratchings, cries of "Cheep, cheep" -from the squad room. The Sergeant's room was full of chicken...
King Boris, who does not believe in capital punishment, who had heretofore never approved a death sentence in his life, decided last week that the recent bomb outrage in the Sveti Krai Cathedral (TIME, Apr. 21 et seq.) merited the supreme sentence, signed three death warrants. At 8 o'clock in the morning, while low, gray clouds were chased lazily by a warm breeze, 30,000 people assembled in a meadow under Mount Vitosna on the outskirts of Sofia. Before them were three white gibbets, surrounded by a strong force of soldiers...
Inasmuch as the club is situate near the great Warsaw Cathedral, the police were convinced that a Polish version of the Bulgarian Sveti Krai Cathedral outrage (see below) had been planned...
...trial of terrorists implicated in the Sveti Krai Cathedral explosion began and evidence read established positively the connivance of the Third (Communist) Internationale in the short-lived attempt to overthrow the Government and institute a reign of terror. One Zadgorsky, sacristan of the Sveti Krai Cathedral, said that he had been a Communist for several years, had been bribed with money received from Bolsheviki to permit one Vasco to place bombs on the roof of the Cathedral and had, on the fatal day, signaled when the building was full, whereupon Vasco had fired the fuse to the bombs. One Friedmann...