Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From his Sewickley, Pa. estate, where he shoots clay pigeons with the Mellons, holds a big invitation pistol tournament every year and plays by ear on his $75,000 organ, President Thomas Atterbury McGinley of Duff-Norton Manufacturing Co. inaugurated a weekly nationwide organ and variety radio program to advertise the jacks he makes for heavy industry. Title: "The House That Jacks Built." Mr. McGinley composed the theme song, At Sunset. Mrs. McGinley wrote the lyrics...
...intercollegiate postal match the University pistol team will attempt to riddle Texas A and M tonight. "We expect to beat those people," Captain Lawrence B. Bixby, coach of the team, said yesterday...
Leading members of one of the strongest Crimson pistol teams in recent years are L. Guy Huntley '37, captain; A. Harmon Hall '38, manager; Spencer D. Howe, ocC, high man for the team in the Metropolitan Pistol League; and Horace C. Arnold '37. Altogether the team has ten or eleven good shots, "more than ever before", according to Captain Bixby...
...this great Spanish port, "The Queen City of Andalusia. Said Mrs. Violet Montagu Owen, English keeper of a small beach hotel: "I have seen men cut down on the beach outside my house. I have seen people murder each other in the streets over a piece of bread. Pistol brigades roamed the street looking for 'traitors.' They shot suspect on sight...
With the Spanish Whites entered truck loads of bread. Munching Málagans were soon telling between mouthfuls how numbers of Spaniards have been saved fror pistol squads by the boldness of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Bainbridge Norton of Memphis, Tenn...