Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dislodged the Riffian artillery which has been desultorily peppering Tetuan from the hills throughout the winter. The citizens of Tetuan have grown thoroughly tired of this endless haphazard bombardment, though it was featured by several interesting "freak shots," such as the escape of an old woman unhurt when a shell destroyed the sewing machine at which she was seated...
This line-up of the veterans represents a considerable change from the positions the same men rowed last spring. Leavitt rowed at number 7 last season, Hubbard at 6, while Darlington held down the number 4 seat. Platt is the only member of last year's shell to row in the same position this year...
Germans, being sturdy and efficient, are good at all sports in which method is more important than speed. They make excellent oarsmen. In 1905 the Atlanta Boat Club (U.S.) sent a four-oared shell to compete in a regatta at Hamburg. In 1914 a German shell raced in the Henley regatta. But not since that year, for various reasons, have the oarsmen of Hamburg pulled against those of the U.S. Last week the Hamburg Rowing Club sent its compliments to five U.S. colleges, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania, and invited them to come to Hamburg for the annual regatta...
...oyster in Grimsby, England (my native city), with two ordinary mice trapped by the neck and killed. The custom is to feed oysters with barley water in a dish. The oyster one day with shell open was attacked by mice and closed his shell. Thousands of picture cards were sold by Lowthian Bros., photographers. I would not have believed it if I had not seen the animals in the photographer's window. Live oysters are sure mousetraps...
...pocket, he said to his friend, "If you can shoot it out of my hand, it's yours." After some wrangling, the details of the wager were satisfactorily arranged. Mr. Beres took his place, holding the 50? aloft between thumb and forefinger. His friend put a shell in his shotgun, drew a careful bead. Pow! went the gun. The coin, dented by dozens of buckshot, careered away. . . . With it went the end of Proprietor Beres' thumb...