Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheriff Adkins, that he started discharging, not his bullet pistol, but his tear gas gun. He and Marion, N. C., were unfamiliar with this weapon, about the size and shape of a large flashlight. He got a lot of tear gas in his own face. The crowd recoiled. An old man reached the Sheriff and belabored him with a stick. While grappling this assailant, who later died, Sheriff Adkins says he heard his deputies start shooting their real guns. The crowd fled shrieking down the street in all directions. The deputies kept shooting. Bodies began to drop-three, five...
...week Assistant Secretary Lowman feeling that the disturbance had thoroughly blown over, issued a new order, again granting "courtesy-of-the-port" to Congressmen. Newspapers fumed editorially about "unAmerican favoritism," while jubilant Congressmen, returning from abroad for the impending session of the House, jaunted through the customs in their old, carefree...
...realty at El Dorado, Ark., where he is president of the Chamber of Commerce, a 39-year-old booster-bachelor. Accepting his new office, he cried: "I should hold high and keep clean the banner...
...walked up to Wiggins at an appointed hour, grinned and shot him through the temple with his 48 calibre pistol. Then he had turned to Marvin Duncan, another captured guard, and said: "Prepare yourself. You're next." They let Shea go because he had been "a pretty good old plug." Daniels had offered the guards' lives as the price of free exit for himself and his four followers in the revolt which began at noon. Daniels had also demanded in repeated messages and shouted parleys that Warden Francis Eugene Crawford supply them with automobiles to drive away...
...innovation. They ordered "drinks for all, on the house," commanded the orchestra to play on. Guests with spirits revived continued to revel, forgot their losses, while the bandits returned jewels to all women who consented to be their dancing partners. At daybreak police arrived, found sleepy guests, no bandits. Old Bombings. Into the swimming pool of the Lakeshore Athletic Club landed a bomb which shattered windows, blew out part of a wall, sent guests scurrying. Police found no bomber. . . . A bomb went off in the doorway of Broker Charles H. McCarthy's apartment, damaged furniture, tore out a wall...