Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, S. C., Circuit Court Judge J. Henry Johnson asked for a law forbidding sale of trousers with hip pockets, so that "people wouldn't have such a handy place to carry a pistol...
...Rome, The Command To Love, The Little Show; mysteriously in a borrowed bungalow which burned to the ground; near Colts Neck, N. J. Burned away except for the torso and one leg, the body was found in the smoking ruins near a melted half-pint flask, an automatic pistol with five cartridges in the magazine exploded, apparently by heat. Miss George stopped the run of Kind Lady in which she had the leading role...
...during his visit last year only the most strenuous efforts kept out of newsorgans the fact that H. R. H. amused himself some evenings by standing in his bedroom in the Hotel Dunapalota and breaking the electric light bulbs in a room opposite with well-aimed shots from his pistol...
...which, mistaken at a political meeting for the speaker of the evening, he makes himself the hero of the occasion by an address composed of foolish generalities. The most exciting is that which brings the story back to its starting point in the music hall, where a final pistol shot punctures the mystery permanently...
Died. George Charles Hanson, 52. U. S. Consul General at Salonika; by his own hand (pistol); on board the President Polk en route...