Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your conscience trouble you when you put your hand on the Bible in the Grand Jury room," sneered Attorney Stryker...
...week 1,000 of the 7,000,000 U. S. residents who took out hunting licenses this year toted their shotguns to Vandalia, ten miles north of Dayton, Ohio. The birds they were after were clay pigeons. The occasion was the No. 1 trapshooting event of the year: the Grand American Tournament...
...came to the "Grand" in a $20,000 private railroad car. Others came in trailers, camped behind the clubhouse. A doctor commuted from Cincinnati by plane. The week's 15 events offered $50,000 in prizes. In the Grand American Handicap, big prize event of the meet, there were no favorites, for a 14-year-old tyro, shooting from the 16-yd. line, had as good a chance to win as a top-flight marksman shooting from the 25-yd. line. Solidest tradition of the 39-year-old trapshooting classic is that an "unknown from nowhere" usually wins...
...been called the best shot since Annie Oakley. During 1937 she shot at 1,600 registered clay targets for an average of better than 97 out of every 100 (a world's record for women), and accomplished the unprecedented feminine feat of breaking 284 straight at the Grand. Last week 117-lb. Lela Hall established another record when she won the North American women's championship (with 195 out of 200) for the fourth year...
...Grand American Handicap, where men and women shoot together, neither topnotcher won. Winner, as usual. was an obscure gunner: 45-year-old Ortello West, county highway superintendent who had been shooting at and around clay targets for 17 years but never before had won "anything worth having." The $1,000 he won last week will go a long way in his home town of Coshocton, Ohio...