Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cahill was not. Resenting the city man's talk, the patriotic blacksmith let his temper get the better of him. He picked up one of his tools and flung it at Cahill. Cahill flung back. The blacksmith flung another, Cahill returned it, and Blacksmith McMahan drew his gun shot Cahill dead...
...only six days, with a two-bird bag limit and shooting of cock birds only, now allows farmers to sell hunting rights on artificially-raised pheasants without limit on season, bag or sex. Many a new York farmer is doing a nice business at $6 to §15 per gun per day. Texas, where gamewise farmers have been compensated for nine years, this year has 3,700.000 privately-owned acres open to hunters of deer, quail, ducks, wild turkeys. The gunner pays the farmer not more than $4 a day or 25^ per acre per season. Georgia's game...
...down to the basement to study, because the lights were turned out in the rooms. We were allowed no cines but if caught cutting we, were required to "walk the area" for twenty-two hours. This was called a "month slug," and meant patrolling back and forth carrying a gun and unable to speak to anyone. A chapel cut counted as two class cuts...
...every Turkish city and major town the dawn came up one day last week with the earth-shaking thunder of a 100-gun artillery salute. Three days and nights of sleepless rejoicing, songs, dancing in the streets and every sort of Turkish whoopee began by express order of the Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, blond "Victorious Mustafa the Excellent...
...strong men "hunted fortunes as if they were bears. . . . We didn't whistle-and then whine to 'em. ... An individualism that squalls for protection from its own mistakes ain't even as respectable as one that bought votes and slugged its way into power with a gun in its hand...