Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCormick's cavernous, walnut-paneled 24th floor office, guarded by two secretaries and one of the Trib's 45 pistol-packing cops, the daily schedule ticks off with military precision. First come Leon Stolz with his squad of editorial writers, and Carey Orr with his crew of highly skilled cartoonists, to hear the orders of the day. The discussion often goes into luncheon at the 19th floor Overset Club, the executives' dining room...
...audience went positively crackers. They dragged the cast back for 14 curtain calls. One of the cast had to fire a stage pistol into the air to quiet them down, but they kept yipping until the company did another encore of the Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' number. "Why," first-nighters griped as they filed out, "can't England do these things?" England's most famed producer of musicals, 73-year-old Charles Cochran, excitedly admitted that he had never seen a better show - "and those well-fed chorus boys, what a pleasure . . . not a pansy amongst...
...room in the swank Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore when he discovered how right those reports were. Waiters belonging to the Auténtico faction refused to serve him (but servants who followed their union's Communist leaders loyally made his bed). As the 2,000 pistol-packing, trigger-happy delegates (both Auténticos and Communists) jockeyed to get their credentials certified, pistols popped. One Auténtico was killed, one wounded. Later, two auto loads of Auténticos raced by Communist headquarters, sprayed the entrance with their automatics...
...tabloid readers with long memories, the Galápagos were the home of a lady known as Baroness Eloise, whose favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled pistol. In 1934 she vanished with the latest of her seedy lovers and has not been sighted since-much to the chagrin of Sunday-supplement editors. Since her day the archipelago has been popularly regarded, at least by tabloid readers, as a lovers' Eden, with hibiscus and orchids everywhere and acquiescent beauty under every bush. But U.S. Army & Navy men who were stationed during...
Most Faithful Friend. In Baltimore, the National Safety Council reported, a dog belonging to Ruth Patterson spied a pistol on a washstand, put his paw on it, shot his mistress in the hand as she relaxed in the bathtub...