Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention wore on, women began arming themselves with water pistols of their own (a favorite weapon: a pistol guaranteed to produce a hundred and fifty 25-ft. squirts) and engaged in duels with their tormentors. A Legion prankster who waved a dry but dangerous-looking red paintbrush in women's faces was clouted with an umbrella, several handbags, and a high-heeled shoe. But the Legionnaires welcomed competition with disconcertingly uproarious laughter, went right on gulping from pint bottles, dropping water bags and emitting an odd war cry: "Hya, Queenie, Queenie, Queenie-best old dog you ever...
Despite pain and danger he did not lose the coarse ferocity which had endeared him to voters in Mississippi's piney woods. He bragged that one operation had left him, with "no more chin than a jack-rabbit"; he said he had a pistol under his pillow for photographers. He talked nonchalantly of death, promised to "haunt the hell" out of the Republicans who had started the fight to bar him from the Senate. As summer wore on he seemed to be on the road to recovery. But a fortnight ago his wizened, 69-year-old body fell prey...
Direct Action. In Omaha, a customer underestimated Mrs. Nonie Anders, waltzed out of her restaurant without paying his 75? check, whereupon the 61-year-old proprietor picked up her pistol, chased the customer out to his car, conked him with the gun butt, dragged him back in and called the cops...
...Macomber, Expenditures Committee clerk. As they approached the little monorail, open-top trolley that trundles Senators to the Capitol, a shot split the air. Bricker and Macomber whirled. About 15 steps behind them, they saw a grey, sharp-faced little man frantically breaking open a smoking, single-shot target pistol to reload...
Died. Herbert L. Satterlee, 83, patriarchally handsome son-in-law and biographer of the late J. P. Morgan Sr.,* Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt, onetime president of the Union League Club and longtime Manhattan corporation lawyer and social figure; by his own hand (pistol); in Manhattan...