Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Verna Carr Taylor, "most beautiful woman in two counties," had been found with a bullet through the heart and his .45 calibre revolver lying nearby (TIME, Nov. 23), 60-year-old Henry H. Denhardt, onetime Lieutenant Governor and Adjutant General of Kentucky, declared he had not fired a gun for six months. He suggested suicide. Paraffin tests for traces of nitrates, as from gunpowder, were made of both their hands. Last week Coroner D. L. Ricketts of La Grange announced that the tests indicated Mrs. Taylor had not lately fired a gun, and that General Denhardt had. Coroner Ricketts further...
Paulino Uzcudun, the oldtime Spanish boxer with the hairy chest and concrete chin, was reported busy with a speedboat last week rescuing White civilians from Red ports. "My only regret," said he, cuddling a submachine gun, "is that in war I can't use my fists." Spain's No. 1 football forward, Ricardo Zamora, was throwing hand grenades last week and various bull fighters were engaged en both sides at Madrid. "The Great Belmonte" had stopped fighting bulls to become a rural policeman...
...during the first year of attentions paid to her by Edward of Wales (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934). Last week it appeared wise for the chaperonage of Mrs. Merryman to be resumed and grey-haired but gay Aunt Bessie rushed to England on the Queen Mary carrying the gun-metal bag she was given by H. R. H. during her previous chaperonage...
...chain fell, 1,500 pigeons sprang into the air. In the harbor, 14 men-of-war boomed a 21-gun salute. Some seals popped up near one of the piers, added their barks to the crowd's cheers. Across the sky droned 250 Navy planes. Beneath them popped a display of daytime fireworks. The dignitaries drove across the bridge to San Francisco, repeated their speeches there. Not until they were carefully out of the way was the public admitted. Then, in the White House, President Roosevelt pressed his little gold key. On flashed green lights at each...
...Lila Lee, she had burned a suicide note left by Reid. Still unexplained were such questions as: why Russell's body lay unfound in the Morris' lawn swing for twelve hours; why no bullet was found; whether the shot that killed Russell was fired from the rusty gun he clasped in his hand...