Word: gunshot
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Died. Zachary Smith Reynolds, 20, youngest son and an heir of the late Richard Joshua Reynolds (tobacco), husband of Torch Singer Libby Holman (Little Shows, Three's A Crowd); of "a gunshot wound inflicted by a person or persons unknown;" in Winston-Salem...
Piedmont is not just a curious antique. Professor Phillips has refused to be weaned away from "the land of the hicks" and believes heartily in the college's accomplishment. That Piedmont does not come within gunshot of Dr. Flexner's ideal of a university really makes no difference. Georgia farmers don't ask that their doctor or lawyer be a scholar. Without pretending to reach the intellectual level of a great university, Piedmont gives a sound general education, and one surely richer in human values than many more sophisticated colleges can give...
...decent respect for mankind. The press will want to know, the people will want to know, why the U. S. put a stop to proceedings aimed at obtaining peace. ... Of the 16 advisory opinions handed down so far by the Court, not one has come within gunshot of our interests. ... If we have an interchange of views, frankly and openly, in which each side will have to justify its position to the world, then the League council would never venture to submit a request for an advisory opinion in a case in which the U. S. has an interest...
...even more spectacular figure than deposed Dictator Leguia. If five-foot-three Dictator Leguia is a bantam, pugnacious Colonel Cerro, five-foot-flat, is a molecule of a man, an explosive molecule. Brown as a berry, he has been fighting all his life. He is scarred with 16 gunshot wounds. In 1914 leading a revolution against the then President of Peru (who bore the good Nordic name of George E. Billingshurst) three fingers of his left hand were shot away. In 1921 in an unsuccessful revolution against President Leguia his right arm was crippled and part of his skull crushed...
Injured: by gunshot, 60; by brickbats and blows...