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Word: pistolâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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...once the onetime War Lord appeared smiling, affable, passed around his famous fat cigars. The accident was regrettable, he said, but easily explained. He had been "handling" a new pistol???presumably much as a Tilden swishes a new racket?to get its hang and feel. He had not noticed Prince Hsien Kai or anyone else in the garden. Somehow or other, while he "handled" the pistol, it had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Ugly Customer | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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