Czolgosz
LEON, an American assassin; born about 1874, of Polish-German ancestry; worked at various trades in the United States and became affiliated with anarchists through the teachings of EMMA GOLDMAN (q. v.). On Sept. 6, 1901, while President McKinley was holdwhile President McKinley was holding a public reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N. Y., Czolgosz treacherously shot him twice. On Sept. 14, the President died; on Sept. 23 Czolgosz was brought to trial; on the 26th was sentenced to death, and was electrocuted in the prison of Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1901. ト D, d, the fourth letter and the third consonant in the English alphabet. It represents a dental sound formed by placing the tip of the tongue against the roots of the upper teeth, and then passing up vocalized breath into the mouth. It is always sounded in English words. though frequently slurred over in rapid speech in such words as handkerchief.
After a nonvocal or surd consonnant it takes a sharper sound, nearly approaching that of t, especially in the past tenses and past participles of verbs in -ed.
D. As an initial is used: 1. In chronology, for Domini, genit. sing. of Lat. Dominus=Lord, as A. D. =Arno Domini in the year of our Lord. 2. In music, as an abbreviation for Discantus, Dessus, Destra, etc. 3. In university degrees, etc., for Doctor, as M. D. Doctor of Medicine ; D. D. Doctor of Divinity, etc.
D. As a symbol is used: