Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys of Union, S. C. took down their rifles, pistols, shotguns one morning last week and went out hunting. Two white women had said that the evening before a Negro with a gun had stopped them, seized the younger of them, held the other at pistol-point while the first, after wrenching free, ran for her brother. When the brother came, said the women, the Negro shot at him. He fell down, feigned death. That frightened the Negro away. . . . Soon the men & boys of Union returned, bringing Dan Jenkins, road laborer. Yes, said the women, that was the nigger. Soon...
...form sheet for that afternoon's horse races at Washington Park. Smoking and reading he walked toward the Illinois Central railroad station, entered the crowded pedestrian tunnel passing under Michigan Avenue. As he neared the tunnel's exit, another man stepped behind him, thrust a "belly-gun" (sawed-off revolver) close to the back of his head, fired a .38-calibre bullet through his brain. With the cigar still clenched in his teeth, the form sheet still clutched in his hand, the short, stocky man plunged forward on his face, dead. The killer leaped over the body...
...Switzerland home. Famed is her conversation among friends for its bite, epigrams (sometimes unprintable). Her best witticisms are private. Lately in England she wrote that she had been at a luncheon party "at which all five sexes were represented." She is divorced. Other books: Enough Rope, Sunset Gun...
...call of Senator Johnson and 21 of them could find nothing but fault. In chorus they complained that under the treaty the U. S. would: 1) have to build a cruiser fleet on specifications dictated by Britain; 2) have less than a sporting chance with 6-in. gun cruisers instead of 8-in; 3) be at a serious disadvantage against Japan in defending far Pacific possessions. Such words as "wicked," "detrimental," "unjust," "restrictive," "a mistake," "inferiority" poured forth volubly from naval witnesses against the treaty...
Yesterday afternoon a 49-year-old employee of the central packing house at Middelburg intended to kill a cow. Just when he was ready to fire the gun, the cow, with its head, pushed the weapon out of his hand. As it fell to the floor, it went off and the man was shot in the abdomen. He died at once...