Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pink stucco house Mrs. Dorothea Livermore, who divorced Trader Livermore in 1932, was giving a drinking party. Son Jesse began downing a quart of whiskey. Screamed tipsy Mrs. Livermore: "I'd rather see you dead than drinking!" Son Jesse lurched into another room, returned with one of the guns he found there. Challenged he: "You haven't the nerve to shoot me." Up stepped one D. B. Neville, who originally went to the household as Jesse's brother's tutor, remained as his mother's fiance. Tutor Neville took the gun away, left mother...
...February 1915, reports Crapottillot, France's 336th infantry regiment fought hard at Perthes-les-Hurlus. In March it was ordered into the front lines at Souain Mill. Three attempts to take a strong German position failed under withering machine gun fire, with heavy losses. The high command ordered the regiment's 21st company to attack again, at dawn on March 10. At the zero hour the supporting artillery, which had failed miserably in clearing a way through the barbed wire in No Man's Land, clumsily began to drop shells just in front of the 21st...
...pulled up in front of "No. 6 Club, waited to be thwacked, were not disappointed. Spying a raised, unlighted window on the third floor, they sneaked upstairs, found Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt, 19-year-old son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, a friend named Peter de Florez, an air gun modeled on a German Luger pistol, a supply of pellets twice the size of ordinary BB shot. At the police station whither he was taken on a charge of assault & battery, Sniper Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt was asked to identify himself, replied: "The other Roosevelt, for a change." He was released...
...remainder of the ballots are pretty evenly distributed between Flash Gordon and his rocket gun, Blondie and her troublesome babe and husband, Webster's Timid Soul, and daring detective Dick Tracy. Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, must content himself with being the choice of a single...
Most foreigners resident for any length of time in Russia have been in the habit of buying rubles illegally from furtive natives for 4? or even less. The new decree is Dictator Joseph Stalin's opening gun in a barrage of repressive measures to stop such illegal "black bourse" trading in torn, blotched and greasy rubles at their real worth. Last week the thousands of foreign pinks in Moscow, mostly pinks living on funds from abroad, joined the embassy and legation set in wailing at what means to them a quintupling of their living costs...