Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, sold some cattle for 180,000 lire. Bandits are numerous in Italy, and she worried about taking so much money home. So she stopped at her brother's house and asked him to go with her. He was too busy, he said, but he gave her a pistol. On the way she met two villagers, who examined the weapon, found it unloaded and gave her two cartridges. A little farther on she met two masked men who demanded money. She fired twice, killing both. Then she went over to the bodies and lifted the masks...
...Just after one of his papers had guttersniped a dashing engineer named Clito Bockel, Chateaubriand found himself toasting an air force officer at an Aero Club plane christening. The officer responded, "I am Clito Bockel's brother," and knocked the publisher down. Livid with passion, Chateaubriand drew his pistol and, with indifferent aim grazed Bockel's cheek, shot his chief editorial writer...
Soon his men were synchronizing cowbells chromatically arranged like a xylophone; a klaxon, a popgun, a saw, a fire-bell, an octave of Flit guns (tuned to the key of E flat), two octaves of tuned doorbells, an auto pump, a car motor, a Smith & Wesson .22 pistol. His ten players-nine men and a girl harpist-are proficient at making every conceivable noise capable of emerging from a human larynx...
Loving Arms. In Cleveland, Jessie Crump, arrested for packing a loaded pistol to the marriage-license bureau, admitted that she "was taking no chances...
Says Taylor of the streamlined storehouse: "We want to overcome the feeling of the public that they have to see the whole damn thing on a Sunday afternoon." Already so big that museum guards can safely hold pistol practice in the basement, the new Met will be enough to occupy an art lover's entire vacation...