Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hulk named Clarence Collins. One evening Joseph dined by candlelight with his wife at the fashionable Colonial Club. After dinner, at his suggestion, Wilma dropped her husband off downtown, drove on home by herself. When Selby got home his wife was dead, shot twice with a .22-cal. pistol...
...evening last month, Bertie Maughmer phoned police to report that her husband had been shot. Her story: he was teaching her how to use his .357 Magnum pistol when suddenly it sent a high-powered slug through his stomach. On the verge of death, Maughmer seemed to back her story. But nine days later he recovered enough to tell a different tale. After a violent argument, he said, she had waylaid him in the bedroom and shot him in a cold fury...
...shotgun roared, then again, then three pistol reports. Calvin fell dead, riddled by two shotgun charges and bullet wounds in the head and chest...
...standing over the man and fired the pistol three times." The jury returned a verdict of "homi cide by gunshot wounds," which left it up to Franklin County Prosecutor Charles Hansen. He said that he was dissatisfied with the discrepancy between the accounts of father and son. The case would go be fore a grand jury, where Crime Reporter Ted Link could be indicted for murder...
...splendid and famous interchange between the two--"I can call spirits from the vasty deep." "Why, so can I, or so can any man;/But will they come when you do call for them?"--has no life and no wit, save what is in the lines. Reinhardt as Pistol in the second part shows greater understanding of his role, and provides several amusing moments...