Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Richmond, Va., 3-year-old Billy Watkins was playing in the home of James M. Colgin, Chesterfield County (Va.) storekeeper. Billy took a revolver from a drawer, pointed it at Mr. Colgin, pulled the trigger. Storekeeper Colgin fell, mortally wounded, died on the following day.
At Chambersburg, Pa., one Tommy Ruby, 4, took a .22 calibre pistol from the kitchen shelf, went out to the garden where his mother knelt planting seeds, pointed the pistol at her neck, pulled the trigger. . . . She soon died. . . . While the coroner questioned him, Tommy snatched up a long knife...
¶ The President let it be known that he will make four speeches before leaving for his summer vacation: on April 25 in Manhattan to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the United Press Association; on May 17 in Washington before the American Medical Association; on May 30 at the Arlington...
Robert Tyre Jones Jr., famed golfer: "As a law school freshman at Emory University, I have pored long over my law books. Last week, when the mid-term examination marks were posted, my name led all the rest. My marks were: A in torts (the only A in the class...
Married. George W. Dodge, 83, President of the First National Bank of Shinglehouse, Pa.; to Mrs. Jane F. Swallow, 81, Civil War nurse; in New York City. When paying for the wedding license the bridegroom produced a $20 bill, chuckled, said: "Uncle Sam makes these, but they're no...