Word: buckshotting
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Among the pictures were: Tiger Dodging Rainbow-colored Buckshot, Starling Hermit Baying at the Moon, A Saint with an Ulcerated Tooth, Adam and Eve (Adam looked like a lemon), Husband Splitting His Wife's Head with Hatchet (this sympathetic piece priced at $300), A 110-Fear-Old Woman Playing Solitaire (price $250). The nude is eschewed as oldfashioned. Female figures appear exclusively in cotton underwear...
...reductio ad absurdum of the compensation law. Among the petitioners for remuneration is a prisoner in the Sing-Sing death chamber. Another man won damages against his employer because, while engaged in his work, he was mistaken for a rabbit by a party of hunters and filled full of buckshot. Another award was made on the fact that a man accidentally cut himself with a tool with which he was trying to ease a tight shoe on his own foot...
...hard character generally, who took a particular delight in pulling down the dam which flowed Spot Pond meadows, owned by one Timothy Sprague. On one occasion while he was at his usual sport, Sprague saw him, and ordered him to desist, whereupon he wounded Sprague with a charge of buckshot. Either for this or for some other escapade, he was sentenced to sit for several hours upon the gallows, of course at the county jail in Cambridge; and he occupied his time in composing rhymes of which the following is a specimen...