Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smuggled out of Tralee, General O'Duffy told sympathizers in Killarney. "I was hit on the head five times with hammers." In Dublin meanwhile overzealous de Valera sympathizers appeared on the streets with horrid weapons: shillalahs studded with nails. Pitching into two Blue Shirts who were going to a dance at the Mansion House of Dublin's Lord Mayor, they whanged them without mercy, injured one Blue Shirt so severely that a surgeon had to take ten stitches to close the nail wounds in his head...
...Reichstag building at 9 p. m. and entered a balcony window of the deputies' restaurant. He lit one box of the kindling coal, threw it on a table behind the bar. Next he set fire to a plush curtain, a couple of table cloths and his own shirt. In the men's washroom he had apparently no trouble in causing a pile of used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that the main fire was started neither in the washroom nor the restaurant but in the Reichstag assembly hall. There Marinus...
...Parliament Building was accosted by a youth. The boy handed a paper-apparently a petition-to a soldier guard. Then he stepped back, whipped out a revolver, fired two shots at the Chancellor. Doughty little Dollfuss staggered, then calmly walked to his automobile. Surgeons found one bullet in his shirt where it had bounced off a rib. The other had only scratched his arm. Safe and sound at home, the Chancellor prepared to make a radio broadcast that night. Meanwhile his assailant, an ex-soldier named Rudolph Dertil who had been ousted from the Army as a Nazi agitator, explained...
...Herbert Hoover emerged from the West to go to Chicago's Fair. Near Gibbon, Neb., when a freight wreck stalled their train for almost half a day, Mr. Hoover played solitaire in his shirt sleeves. To a newshawk who boarded the train he said: "I'm sorry but I'm not discussing national issues," quizzed the newshawk instead about Nebraska farmers. At the depot in Chicago a crowd of 500 peered and cheered as Mr. Hoover stepped under the glare of camera flashlights. "I'm just a common garden variety of American citizen come...
...Because a feature-writer for the London Tribune happened to be in the vicinity and short of copy, Charlie became a hero overnight. He left his job, went to London to be lionized, photographed, interviewed, presented with a check for ?500. Charlie was a sensible lad and kept his shirt on through all the hullabaloo, but when he found himself in a theatre-box with Ida. winner of a newspaper beauty contest, he lost his head with his heart. Ida was out of the same social drawer as Charlie, but she had ambitions: she really believed she was well...