Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crime, was to be re-identified by Miss Williams. Willie Peterson had been arrested fortnight before when, walking in Birmingham with her brother Dent, Nell Williams had suddenly pointed and screamed, "That's him! That's him!" Brother Dent had covered the Negro with a gun until police came...
Last week, Miss Williams took one look at Negro Peterson and nodded. Suddenly the room was filled with smoke, flame and sound. Dent Williams had whipped out another gun, concealed in the waistband of his trousers, and had done what any other full-blooded young white man in Jefferson County would have done-shot to kill "the black scoundrel." Three slugs took effect, two in the chest, one in the arm. Willie Peterson, dying, was taken away to a hospital where 100 National Guardsmen were subsequently posted to stop further trouble. Dent Williams was arrested, charged with attempting murder, released...
...newly elected Legion commander, replied: "I have seen fewer drunks at this convention than ever at any other convention."* With him was his smiling wife. New Commander Stevens is 35, went from the University of North Carolina to War as a second lieutenant in a machine-gun unit. He is the youngest leader in Legion history. Like retiring Commander O'Neil, he is a graduate of Harvard Law School. At Warsaw he shoots ducks and quail in the autumn, fishes in the summer, sings in the Episcopal choir, practices law. The Stevens have a small son. Curly-headed Commander...
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Indeed college literary publications are progenitors of them all--magazines such as "The Harvard Advocate", the Yale and Princeton "Lits", The Williams "News" have bit by bit turned over many of their former functions to their younger compeers. No longer are they shot gun prescriptions for the undergraduate palate, mingling university bulletins, college news, bits of spice, athletic reviews and literary efforts. In an age of differentiation and and specialization it is no doubt better so. However, as these subsidiary activities have been placed in other hands, the literary monthly has been left with more ample opportunity and attention less...