Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...departure, his heroic sacrifice was in the normal tradition of the Japanese Samurai who inherits the fanatical feudal duty of dying willingly in case of need to save his superior. It was not clear this week, and it may never be clear, exactly how this most amazing mistaken-identity-murder occurred, but it did become clear that Premier Okada secreted himself first in a steel cabinet and later among kitchen wenches...
...Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, contracted pneumonia in his wounded lung, underwent two operations, hovered for a month on Death's verge, then slowly began to recover in a Santa Barbara hospital. Meanwhile his mother, Mrs. Dorothea Livermore Long-cope, was charged with assault with intent to murder, released pending, appearance in court next week. His father, famed stock-trader, flew to Santa Barbara with his third wife, secured legal custody of his son. Last week Son Jesse walked out of the hospital, thin but well, chose to return to his mother...
...even up to the President of the United States, have taken such an Oath for years and years without complaining, and the result has been good, clean, constitutional government. Obviously anyone who opposes the measure, since it attacks only communists, must be communistic, purveyors of the doctrines of mass murder and brutal oppression...
...flown the red blood of Harvard, that such an attack on the ideals of America, the ideals on which this great University has thriven, should remain unlynched, unfought, and unavenged? I put the issue squarely before you: should a President thus avowedly upholding the principles of class hatred, violence, murder, dictatorship, tyranny, and unconstitutionality remain in office at Harvard? If you answer yes, you also are an unAmerican traitor, the only difference between you and a convicted criminal being that there is now in effect a law against the latter, whereas the law against you and your sort...
...much cares that her acting is superficial, operatic, and unconvincing. She plays the role of the aristocratic Rosita Castro, a wisp of a girl who, under the pseudonym of Don Carlos, leads the vigilantes in their fight against the land-stealing Yankee foreigners. Like Joan of Arc, this murder-minded maiden defends her countrymen from their enemies. This is a very thrilling Wild West, made especially for grownups...