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Word: pistoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his 54 years of life, Author Hearn seldom lacked inspiration of one sort or another: he managed to quarrel with just about everybody he met, for long periods slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow. Born in the Ionian Islands in 1850 of mixed Anglo-Irish and Maltese stock, he emigrated to the U.S. at 19, slept in Manhattan doorways and vacant lots, finally went West to Cincinnati in 1871 and got a job on the Enquirer. Color-conscious Cincinnati readers liked his lush accounts of the seamier side of Queen City life, but were rocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passionate Pilgrim | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

After the Bonner family has been thoroughly disrupted by the trial which Mrs. Bonner wins, Mr. Bonner resorts to such dubious measures as pulling a chocolate pistol on his wife, and later bursting into tears...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: Adam's Rib | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...charge was dismissed. In 1912, when he was 21, he was arrested for robbing a woman of $1,600 on the street and again the charge was dropped. But in 1915, Gunman Francesco Castiglia, alias Frank Saverio, alias Frank Stello, was jailed and convicted of illegal possession of a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...court records describe the dark little drama-how the defendant ran from two suspicious policemen and threw his pistol into a lot, how he was caught, dragged back, and how the weapon was found. They tell of his pleas for mercy, made at first in Italian through a court interpreter, and finally in English, and they repeat the words of a forgotten judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...When Molotov visited the White House, "one of the valets was quite astounded ... to find inside [his suitcase] a large chunk of black bread, a roll of sausage and a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One of Those Who Served | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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