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...church Slavonic, and was half way through it a second time before he fell blissfully asleep. And then there was the offensive individual from the other end of the car, who apparently felt that he was not getting his just share of attention and fired two shots from a pistol through the door of the compartment into the corridor. He was removed at the next stop...
Going straight did not appeal to some of the henchmen. They renounced the blood brotherhood pledge and left the gang in discontent. Last week pasty-faced Tomiji Nodera, who, though an accountant, could not stomach the new business ethics, visited the boss, pulled a German Mauser pistol and fired three times. Matsuda slumped dead in his chair...
...morning this week, just before noon, a servant entered the palace bed room of King Ananda Mahidol, 20-year-old constitutional monarch of Siam, and found the king's lifeless body. There was a bullet wound over his left eye, and a pistol lay at his left side. Courtiers who sniffed foul play remembered that Ananda was right handed. Although he had been thoroughly accustomed to handling firearms, the Siamese police and medical authorities pronounced his death "accidental." While his people grieved and the young queen mother, the Phraratanani Sri Sangwan, lay prostrate, Siam's new parliament...
There are rides on plaster elephants, Hindu immolation ceremonies, Chinese opium hells, Japanese circuses, storms at sea, pistol shots, gas explosions, collapsing railway bridges, Indian raids, eagles swooping down on human prey. It's pretty fast & furious horseplay, but not quite enough...
Although a wild shot knocked down a target and caused a six day delay in the final announcement of the winner, it was finally confirmed yesterday that the Harvard NROTC nimrods eked out a five point victory in a shoulder to shoulder pistol match with Tufts, Brown, and Holy Cross NROTCs on May 17 at Tufts. The final score found the Crimson with 955 points. Tufts 950, Brown 880, and Holy Cross...