Black Hand

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These, we are assured, are “desperate men,” but not even the cleverest of the Black Hand gang is a match for the steamroller once the latter, with extraordinarily quick perception, has detected his true nature.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Charlie Russell was a playwright, too, best known for his 1969 piece “Five on the Black Hand Side,” which became a popular Blaxploitation-era film.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2020

Sam Jary, winemaker and owner of Penrith’s Black Hand Wine shop, argues that the efficacy of biodynamic growing is self-evident.

From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2017

Joseph proves an active audience member, laughing at the pratfalls and mouthing the mad, seductive speeches of Black Hand leader Dragutin “Apis” Dimitrijevic along with actor Patrick Page.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2017

They had been recruited, trained, and armed by the Black Hand, a secret group dedicated to the expansion of the Kingdom of Serbia and the liberation of all Serbs living under foreign rule.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman