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...grandson Marcellus Hartley Dodge is now its chairman. Remington first developed the hammerless, solid-breech, repeating shotgun and the hammerless unloading shotgun, introduced the paper shotgun shell and the metallic cartridge in the U. S. It made the deadly little Derringer short barreled pistol, carried in the sash of many a gambler. Newest Remington shells and cartridges are Kleanbore, with potassium chlorate eliminated from the priming mixture, thus sparing the barrel from rust and pitting. Remington once made typewriters, was not successful and sold the division, now part of Remington Rand. Inc. At present Remington is the second biggest maker...
Married. Prince Monolulu of Africa, turf tipster; and a Miss Nellie Amelia Adkind, white woman; in London. Prince Monolulu wore his royal regalia, including hat embellished with three two-foot ostrich plumes, embroidered sash, short jacket on which were traced five symbolic horseshoes...
...gaudy dream (TIME, April 4, 1927). The Manhattan public was somehow puzzled. How came a curly-haired, weak-mouthed little vendor of female garments, in the vegetable suburbs of a great city, to such a pitch of excitement that he could smash a man's skull with a sash-weight? The tabloids, who followed Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder until (and after) the current shot through them in Sing Sing's death house, explained the case as best they could: Ruth was "a dangerous woman," highly sexed, adamant in her purpose. Judd Gray was a spineless wretch whose...
...Macbeth Haxall is dignified by making him a salesman of sofas instead of corsets, a man whose wife is cold and whose mother lives with them. He drinks liquor in startling quantities after Lady Macbeth gets him started. For the murder he is given a hammer instead of a sash-weight. Author Matthews' verdict on the Snyder-Gray case is: Judd Gray not guilty-led astray...
Feeling ran high in Kentucky, in the Sash family, when the Civil War was getting itself ready. When fighting began, there were Sashes in both armies. Wickliffe Sash, a captain in Morgan's raiders, got home for the last time to see his fiancee, found her in love with a Yankee officer. Elisha Abel, Wickliffe's cousin, was luckier. A Federal major, he came unscathed through the fighting in Tennessee, brought home a pretty wife to his Kentucky estate...