Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told police: "I came back from work at noon and my lunch wasn't ready. I took a few drinks and then took a short nap. When I awakened, my father-in-law asked me to shoot his pet dog which had been acting queerly. I got my gun and we went to the garage where I killed...
...great estate of the de Beers diamond tycoons near Kimberley, Lord Hyde, 29, son & heir of the Governor General of South Africa, was out with a party of friends shooting springbok. Rushing forward into the bush he tripped over an anthill, dropped his gun, shot himself dead...
...through the night a special train crawled from Warsaw 200 miles to Cracow. It consisted of a locomotive, four coaches with curtained windows and in the centre an ordinary flat car striped black & blue, the colors of the Polish Military Cross. Floodlights from either end were focussed on the gun carriage, the red-&-white draped coffin, the sword, baton and cap of the Marshal. At every little station the train stopped for a few moments. All along the line candles burned in every farmhouse window and bonfires flickered along the distant hills. At every crossing stood groups of peasants holding...
...gun barks...
Seven crews, Columbia, Cornell, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, Navy, Washington and California, will face the starter a gun above Krum Elbow. A few days the race they will be assigned to their lanes, beginning with the treasured the first from the bank. But good crews in the outside lane have been known...