Word: pistoling
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...knew just where to look for accomplices. He invited babyfaced, 17-year-old Muriel ("Pickles") Downs and 15-year-old Peggy Byrns to join him. Muriel's family were "strict" and made her go to prayer meetings twice a week, but her father had a .22-caliber target pistol and Peggy's divorced mother owned a 1935 La Fayette coup...
...later, he told the Mirror that it must have been a gangland beating in retaliation for Mortimer's occasional stories on underworld affairs. The Hearstpapers' lurid stories described his assailants as "paid mobsters," who had done the job with brass knuckles and a pistol. (Playwright Sidney (Detective Story) Kingsley, a wartime MP who was also in the washroom, said the beating was done with fists, couldn't recollect...
...Problem of Poverty. Captain Sam Grant discovers chubby, two-year-old Ulysses in Georgetown, Ohio, sitting with "chronic composure" when a pistol goes off in his hand. It follows the slight, taciturn young man through the training grounds of West Point and the Mexican War, leaves him a newly commissioned colonel of 39 in the ominous year 1861. Convinced that "biography is not instruction or teaching-but is just a story that happens to be true," Lewis has taken much of the stiffness and the stuffiness out of the Grant legend, and relegated the gossip about his minor vices...
...cage the blackbird sat motionless, silent and weak from hunger. On the bed lay the bodies of Ludovico and Armida Monti, and between them was the pistol with which Monti had shot first his wife, then himself. Piled beside the bed and about the house were 50,000 lire's worth of copies of Unita. Proud Ludovico Monti had not embezzled money; he had simply been unable to admit that the best Unita salesman in Tuscany could not sell as many papers as Unita had sent...
...forces are still feeling the effects of the battle. USS THEM Jones, J.p lympton St. War Admiral, c hoo, Choo Train Monk, ocC lem Desperate Norman, ab olitionist Foooo, k Young Storey, jm B. T. Storey Mauretania, ss R. C. Storey Farb Barf Norman M. Hinerfeld '51 lf W. Pistol...