Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whoever can tell a 12-gauge shotgun from a 10 or 16-gauge gun at that distance is indeed an expert. The riding boots are of course ridiculous-but hunting is not always a matter of walking a great distance. To limit "up the trail" hunting to rabbits and birds is as presumptive as calling the hound a fox hound. More likely, it is a rabbit hound which many eastern hunters find quite indispensable. The red-mittencd gentleman's gesture might fit in many a hunting yarn...
...Guns. The British, who claim to know most about bossing "natives," lifted a disapproving eyebrow when it became known that the U. S. was going to let the Filipinos keep house independently. White prestige in the Orient would be definitely lowered when a brown man replaced a white man in Malacanan Palace. One pre-inaugural problem was whether brown Manuel Quezon was to get a 21-gun salute to white Frank Murphy's 19, ultimately solved by giving them both...
...Court please," he said, "there were no witnesses to the shooting but the evidence indicates that it must have happened in this way. Jeff Bowers went to the drawer where the gun was kept"-he made the gesture of opening an imaginary drawer-"took the automatic in his hand"-he pointed his manicured finger at himself-"and fired. The bullet went in here and came out here...
...case. For if Jeff Bowers committed suicide, that was all there was to it; but if he was killed in the line of duty, Widow Bonnie Bowers had a legal claim for compensation. From Mrs. Bowers' lawyer the Justices learned that there were no recognizable fingerprints on the gun and presumably Jeff Bowers could not have wiped them off after fatally shooting himself; learned that he had loved his wife, had lived carefree and blithe, had only the night before his death written to his mother promising to write her soon again. For an hour, like a majestic homicide...
...California put in at Los Angeles last week with George Albert Boyog, 20-year-old enlisted man, fast in its brig and candidate for the title of the Navy's most original thinker. Reason: While the battleship was 150 miles out at sea, Gob Boyog had seized a gun, tried to hold up the paymaster...