Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oils. Doubtless Edsel Ford, and many another father whose eminence draws upon his family the curious eyes of the world, has often said to news photographers something similar to John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s reported remark of last week to camera-clickers in a Western state: "Go ahead, shoot me. I'm hardboiled. But you must leave my children strictly alone...
Still the waves piled over one another ribaldly, broke, boiled away. Then a loud report fetched all eyes aft. They saw a pontoon shoot clear of the combers and settle back into the ocean in a smother of foam. Quickly then another catapulted through the waves, floated off casually. Far below the surface a chain with links two and a half inches thick and tested to a strain of 110 tons had parted. The work of months at the risk of many lives, all realized, had been swept away in a single moment. The wind blew fresher, the seas rolled...
...Wasted Land" goes back to the last appearance of the Midwest's last purple people, the Dalton boys of Coffeyville, Kan. ... "A tall, harshly beautiful young man" (W. J. Bryan) comes out of Nebraska to be the Silver Knight; pallid Altgeld governs Illinois; Andrew Carnegie's detectives shoot strikers at Homestead, Pa.; solid Mark Hanna quietly bosses Cleveland; Coxey's army marches. . . . "California fruits and heiresses appeared seasonably in New York and were absorbed," but Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce are supplied by the same place...
...will not shoot. ... If any gentleman here finds it necessary to take further issue with my honor, let him fire at me. I will not return his fire. I shall not resort to this stupid, inconclusive, and barbaric method of settling a quarrel which has been forced* upon me. I had hoped that because of my services to Poland no Pole would take my life. I have been shot at and missed. Had I shot I would not have missed. But I, for my part, I am unwilling to shoot another Pole...
...depending on what the women are short of. And so as I stood there I thought of Battleboro, and the Battleboro feeling for Memorial Day came over me, and I wanted to run, but I had on my own pants, and I knew that if I ran they'd shoot me in the pants. So there I stood, and the Boy Scout band passed, and on the drum there was labelled "Rotary Boy Scouts of Cambridge", and I wondered, if a boy scout does a good turn daily, what's the difference between a rotary boy scout and a whirling...