Word: townely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his program. Sophie refused to go. An officer suggested that they go to the Governor's residence. "Do you think Sarajevo is full of assassins?" was General Potiorek's squelcher. Finally the Archduke decided to scrap the program which would have taken him to the town museum and to drive straight back to visit his wounded aide in the hospital. As Franz Ferdinand and Sophie again entered their car (see cut, right), he was informed that Chabrinovitch had been collared by police in the dry river bed. "Hang him as soon as you can," he exclaimed bitterly...
Sarajevo nestles between the hills in the valley of the Miljachka River. Its main thoroughfare, the Appel Quay, follows the river bank. The domes and minarets of Sarajevo's 100 mosques gleamed white in the rain-washed air as the procession started up the quay toward the Town Hall...
...this bucolic attempt on his life, said: "Come on. The fellow is crazy. Let us proceed with our program." A board was put over the fragments in the street, a, policeman stood on it to keep peasants from prying, and the three remaining cars drove on to the Town Hall. So the incident ended...
...they passed Princip and Grabezh, both of whom lost their nerve with the failure of the first attempt. At the Town Hall the Mayor was waiting. When Franz Ferdinand and Sophie entered he began a speech of welcome. His subject: Bosnian loyalty to the crown. This was too stuffy for Ferdinand. He interrupted: "Enough of that! I make you a visit and you greet me with bombs." Sophie quieted him and the Mayor nervously finished his address...
When Walt Mason was 48 he had good reason to fear his fate. Small-town newsman with roving feet, he had drunk his way through many a sheet when he went to William Allen White, swore to work hard, not get tight. Pressing grindstone to his nose, he wrote a batch of rhyming prose. Walt Mason's doggerel, couched in slang, hit the syndicates with a bang; rich, respected, worth his salt grew reformed Booze-hoister Walt...