Word: pistol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their second match of the current season, the Pistol Club, led by Louis G. Buntley '37, captain, will compete against the teams of the Metropolitan Pistel League at 74 Purchase St., Boston, tonight...
...took a taxicab and drove around the block, dropped the Princess Therese de Caraman-Chimay at the Savoy-Plaza, then went on around to the Plaza, just across Fifth Avenue. As their cab paused, waiting an opportunity to turn in, a car drew up alongside. A man with a pistol leaped out, covered the taxi driver. Two others opened the door of the cab and leaned in. One made a grab at a necklace of square-cut emeralds and diamonds, the most obvious item among several hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry that Mme Mathis was wearing. The jewels...
...Martin Decelle, decided to go after them. He got the sheriff and his chief deputy to go along, so there would ''be no trouble." They found the couple parked on a lonely road. Louis Mize argued for a while with his wife. Then he whipped out a pistol, shot Martin Decelle dead...
...Artist Jorgensen moved away from Yosemite to build another home, entirely of boulders, at Carmel-by-the-Sea, within pistol shot of the homes of Poet Robinson Jeffers and the late Lincoln Steffens, but he continued to visit Yosemite from time to time, continued to paint it. In June 1935, Chris Jorgensen died...
...habit of doing something so fantastic that today only Adolf Hitler does it: he caused the heads of Communists to be actually chopped off and "roll in the sand." Old Chang's executioner with his great broad sword, and sometimes Old Chang with his gold-plated Mauser pistol, killed many more Reds than ever the Nazis have. He also, on his own responsibility as no gentleman and a War Lord, burst open Soviet Embassy offices at Peiping and filled the world for weeks with evidence of its machinations which Communists loudly called "forged." It seemed last week entirely against...