Word: pistol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toying with a pistol, General Alexander Dimitriejevitch sat in his home in Belgrade last week. He had been cashiered as Marshal of the Court for failing to save the life of King Alexander. All the army expected him to commit suicide. While fascinated correspondents waited. General Dimitriejevitch put his pistol away, called rumors that he had already committed suicide ''ridiculous...
...questions and answers followed, some elaborately facetious. When May inquired what the automaton liked to eat, it responded with a minute-long discourse on the virtues of toast made with Macy's automatic electric toaster. Finally when May requested the creature to raise its arm and fire the pistol, the arm went up, the metal forefinger pulled the trigger, the firing-pin fell with a click. Professor May explained that store officials would not permit him to use blank cartridges...
...expression from that of a falcon to that of a kitten. They were strange, hazel eyes, full of valor." Having accused him of selling his country's military secrets to Germany, the officers of the French Army in 1894 handed an obscure Jewish captain named Alfred Dreyfus a pistol, told him it was the officer's way out. Captain Dreyfus chose to live. Through four years of imprisonment on Devil's Island he lived, while mobs rioted, cabinets fell, all France divided into Dreyfusards and Anti-Dreyfusards. Grey and haggard, he lived to see Emile Zola & friends...
Died. George F. McClelland, 39, president of Broadcasting Stations Corp., onetime executive vice president of NBC; by his own hand (pistol) ; in Manhattan...
...Archduke Franz Ferdinand was done to death at Sarajevo 20 years ago, no camera caught the act, although a memorable newspicture shows the capture of Assassin Princip. Last year at Miami, Hearst's brash Cameraman Sammy Schulman snapped Chicago's late Mayor Cermak bleeding from his fatal pistol wound (TIME, Feb. 27, 1933). Far more striking was William Warneke's famed shot of New York's Mayor Gaynor, taken a second after a bullet struck him in the neck. But no complete view of an assassination-before, during & after the act -was ever caught...