Word: pistol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Propped up in bed in Paris last week was Count Charles de Chambrun, retired French Ambassador to Rome recovering from a pistol shot in the groin, fired by sultry Madeleine de Fontanges who accused him of breaking up her romance with Benito Mussolini (TIME, March 29 et seq.). Cried the Count: "I swear I never in my life occupied myself with Mme de Fontanges' personal affairs...
With five bullet holes in his body, dying Correspondent Claude L. McCracken wired the Associated Press and United Press, both of which he served as Alturas correspondent: "Tonight about 6:30 Harry French shot Claude L. McCracken, editor of the Modoc Mail, with an automatic pistol. Condition of McCracken serious...
...cigaret butts and wastepaper, refused to serve food, carry bags, make beds, man elevators. Smelling trouble, managers of the Book-Cadillac, Detroit-Leland and Fort Shelby tried to lock out the bulk of their employes, but a flying squad of would-be sit-downers crashed the Book-Cadillac, one pistol shot being fired in the scrimmage...
...along an upward-sloping row of pedestals until he was crouched on the highest one. Two tigers came in and took their places beside him. Ten or twelve more beasts entered. While some of these were still milling around on the cage floor, Clyde Beatty, holding a blank-loaded pistol and a steel-bolted chair in his left hand and a whip in his right jumped into the cage, slapped the gate shut behind, pranced, crouched, cracked his whip. A lion made a tentative lunge at him. The pistol barked, the chair legs blocked the thrust...
...Immigration Service pistol team: the national midwinter pistol-shooting championship; at Tampa, Fla. In fourth place, behind Miami and Los Angeles police teams, were the Federal Government's famed...