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Word: shooted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anonymity is a convenient shelter from which to shoot ink-venomed arrows at the broad target of worldly foibles. Unfortunately this system, so advantageous to the attacker, has come under the ban common to all unsportsmanlike conduct. Ever since the Arabian nights, the public has regarded invisibility as an unfair weapon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVASION BY ANONYMITY | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

...they don't get them, the way things are now. The Government takes and trains thousands of boys every summer at citizens' training camps free. Any boy can go there and learn to hike, camp, swim and shoot. They are shown how to take care of themselves in the outdoors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: May 17, 1926 | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

Moved to deep smoldering wrath, she did not chastise the animal at the time, waited until her husband returned from a sea voyage last week, charged him to shoot the squirrel while she waited on the porch. Impetuous, Herr Bugg-Moe fired upon the squirrel without pondering his aim. The bullet missed, plowed through a window of the house, pierced one of Fru Bugg-Moe's wrists as she held her fingers to her ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Caged | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...simply my sister's mental derangement that made her shoot Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mussolini Trionfante | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...occupants of the room. Stepping into his bedroom he leaned over to open a drawer, when some one seized him by the arm with the injunction to "put em up." At the point of a revolver Atherton backed into the room where his two companions sat. Offering to shoot the first one who moved, the intruder, who was a stocky foreigner of swarthy aspect, sidled toward the door and fled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daring Yegg Holds Up Matthews Hall Student at Point of Gun--Yard Cops in Frantic Search for Elusive Gunman | 4/7/1926 | See Source »

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