Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done if Bill was told. He'd fix the fence, or skin a cow, Or ride a bronc, and EVEN PLOW, Or do anything, if you told him how. Like many men in the oldtime West, On any job, he did his best. He left a blank that's hard to fill For there'll never be another Bill. Both White and Black will mourn the day That the "Biggest Boss" took Bill away. "'Bill' Pickett was born about 1860; died April 2, 1932, from injuries received while roping a bronc on the 101 Ranch...
...bull ring, wearing a red shirt, with no other person to be in the ring. Instead, prior to his entrance, besides the beautiful reddish-roan, fighting bull, there were some five or six well mounted white cowboys of the Miller outfit, all armed with large calibred revolvers containing blank cartridges, and also carrying lassos. . . . As this was contrary to the announcement, the already existing antagonism of the majority was increased. After an unusually long wait Pickett appeared, but no red shirt, and was greeted mainly by hisses & jeers. He made several futile attempts to connect with the bull, evidently trying...
...Kahahawai's kidnapping and the discovery of his corpse. They had listened to Lieut. Massie's long story of how his wife had been ravished, its effect on his mind, his success in extorting a confession from Kahahawai just before, with a revolver in his hand, his mind went blank. Pretty young Thalia Fortescue Massie had dramatically corroborated her husband's tale. Alienists had sworn that Lieut. Massie was insane at the time; others, that he was not. What rang loudest in the jury's ears, though, were the last things they had heard, the lawyers' summations...
...morning at Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue's. Between the time Kahahawai, cowed by a revolver held by Lieut. Massie, allegedly confessed to the ravishment of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie and a bullet, darting from the same revolver, bored fatally into Kahahawai's lungs, the case record was blank...
...sole defendant to take the witness stand Lieut. Massie at no time testified that he had shot and killed Kahahawai. His story ran only up to the moment when the brown-skinned native blurted: "We done it." After that the young submarine officer swore his mind went blank, he had no recollection of what he did. Prosecutor John C. Kelley openly doubted this version of the Kahahawai killing, indicated that he thought one of the two seamen had really fired the shot. But clever old Clarence Darrow, chief defense counsel, gave his adversary no opportunity to enlarge upon this doubt...