Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert the Second. Bob the Second had been preparing for the job since the age of four, when he rode his first horse. He learned to rope, cut out cattle and shoot a pistol with either hand. As a boy, he used to rise before dawn, and with brother Dick and their three sisters ride 25 miles to a roundup. After dark they would ride back. Sometimes Sarah, the youngest girl, would go to sleep and fall off her horse. The others would put her back in the saddle, then wake her up to race the last mile home...
Handle Dept. In Westport, Conn., Howard Gagg married Matilda Jester. In Camp Kilmer, N.J., the Army returned a pistol confiscated from C. E. Outlaw of Guntown, Miss...
...Holster. In Knoxville, Cora Sharp was treated for a painful flesh wound, explained to police that her pistol had gone off accidentally as she was trying to make a fast draw from her brassiere...
Eggs for the Teacher. Whether or not more distant critics would agree that Siqueiros was really a genius, they would have to admit that he played the part with dash and style. As a boy, he liked to lie in bed and outline hovering nudes on the ceiling with pistol shots. At 15, he was arrested for throwing eggs at his teacher during an art student strike; the teacher wouldn't let them paint outdoors. "Since then," he murmurs, lowering his bright green eyes, "I've been taken to jail nearly 70 times...
Lesson. In Ionia, Mich., a thief Willis Clark had chased out of his garage returned a couple of hours later with a pistol, robbed Clark of $200, remarked virtuously: "That will teach you to treat people better...