Word: pillow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michael Vengalli, 5, was struck in the thigh, the bullet penetrating the base of his spine. He died that night. His brother Salvatore, 7, was knocked sprawling by five bullets in his body. Michael Bevilacqua, a baby of 3, lay nearby in his carriage. Four slugs tore into his pillow, two caught him in the back. Samuel Divino, 5, and Florence D'Amello, 14, were less seriously injured...
...Evansville, Ind.. Virginia Lynenback, nervous about leaving her window open, put a revolver under her pillow before going to sleep. A thief cut through the window-screen, entered the room, stole Virginia Lynenback's watch, purse, revolver...
Education cannot be viewed as a pillow upon which youth is urged to sit down one moment beyond the time required to finish preparation for the more serious business of life. Education which bids youth to avoid the fight for which it has equipped itself is surely a dubious mentor. Beyond question, the difficulties in the way of graduating classes from our higher institutions of learning are this year formidable. But the only way to solve a difficulty is to grapple with it directly. Opportunity to earn one's living is found no other way, even in the darkest hours...
...grey dawn. Upstairs in a farmhouse near Milan, Mo. lay a burly middle-aged man with a scarred lip, asleep. Near his pillow lay a loaded pistol. But he did not wake up when four stealthy-figures entered the bedroom and "covered" him with a submachine gun, did not have time to snatch his weapon before they had seized and beaten him into submission...
...stood for 'Ku Klux Kon' has reduced the membership in the Klan from 9,000,000 five years ago to 35,000 now. Tough on the Imperial Wizard and the percentage-boy organizers, but I guess nobody else is weeping ? if we count out the pillow case industry. ... In New Jersey I see the Prohibition administrator is interviewing reporters through a peephole. Sorry, boys. Can't be too careful these days...