Word: pointblank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artists. An artist is perfectly free to hire any manager he wants." But when A. G. M. A. representatives last month wanted to look at Employe Judson's books (on the theory that the employer has a right to know how the business is going), Employe Judson refused pointblank...
...Grandma LeMaster & kin. Gordon Sims's father heard his son yell, got there to find him knifed and bleeding to death on the ground. As the elder Sims bent over his son's body he was stabbed. He seized a .22 rifle and blazed away, pointblank. Mrs. LeMaster's son-in-law fell wounded. Somehow the daughter was stabbed in the breast. When the officers came, they arrested Mrs. LeMaster for the murder of Gordon Sims...
...Cleveland, arrested for firing a shotgun pointblank at his wife, James Florian, 59, landscape gardener, told police, "I figured she would make a fine target...
...Middlesboro, Ky., passing a graveyard late at night, Slim Jaggers whirled at a rustling noise, saw a big white shape, whipped out a pistol and fired pointblank. The bullet hit a big white tombstone, knocked off a marble chip which flew into Jaggers' eye, blinded...
Police who swarmed over Northfield's campus last week had no trouble reconstructing the murder-someone lurked on a macadam path outside the study until Headmaster Speer stood up, then fired a shotgun pointblank through the window. But of weapon, killer or motive they could find no trace...