Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That night Que Yee, a Hip Sing, was met by three pellets of steel as he walked upstairs in his house. He rolled to the bottom and died. Wong Hong, a young Hip Sing gunman, was entering his lodging house. A hatchet came down on his head from behind and his brains were crushed. They found a revolver lashed inside his vest...
Next day an aviator discovered a large spot of oil and naphtha floating on the water between Syracuse and Cape Passero. The bottom lay 4,000 feet below the floating oil. Hope for the Sebastiano Veniero was virtually abandoned...
...Captain Adolphus Andrews, kind-hearted skipper of the Mayflower, was requested by the Navy Department to sift all charges arising out of the sleeping Coolidge guard scandal to the bottom. Officers who have commanded their men to act as servants at "all night parties" (if there have been any such) are likely to face an unprecedentedly stern Skipper Adolphus...
...muscular, almond-eyed, trouser-wearing female came to life. She and part of her polyandrian crew boarded the S.S. Kwanchung, seized it before it left Canton. At a prearranged point, they clambered to the bridge, poured fatal shot into four seamen. Their confederates came alongside, and presently the whole bottom including the Chinese Captain, two Chinese Christian preachers, 50 passengers, steamed to an unknown piratical cove. The Queen demands $120,000 ransom...
...fine May morning in 1915, the German submarine U-20, cruising off the Irish coast released a. slender steel projectile into the chill Atlantic. The projectile coursed onward like a speeding shark, nestled against a tender leviathan, and the Lusitania went to the bottom...