Word: shooter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University quintet last year. This season they have four of the five men who started in that game back again, and the newcomer. Partenheimer, has proved himself one of the fastest guards which the agriculturists have had in years. In addition he is the most accurate basket shooter on the squad with the possible exception of Temple, who was a thorn in the side of the Crimson quintet last year...
...Free-Shooter...
...final shooting match arrives. All the local shooters are there. Max uses his enchanted bullets and carries away first honors. Then the final shot! Max aims at a white dove. "Don't shoot-I am the dovel" screams Agatha. Too late. She falls-into the arms of her bridesmaids. But she is protected by a magic funeral wreath, given to her by an aged hermit. Foiled is Zamiel, the evil "free-shooter," and in his rage he directs the wandering bullet into the heart of the villainous Kaspar. Max confesses and reforms, and all ends in holy rejoicing...
Hisses, jeers and shouts from the radicals. They rushed forward and tried to shove Howat back on the platform. "Shooter" Smith, a gray-bearded mountaineer from Tennessee, William Blizzard of West Virginia and their followers repulsed the assault. More jeers and booes as Howat retired defeated...
...Assailant. After the shot, the people broke through the police cordons amid cries of "Lynch the shooter!" The would-be assassin stood petrified with fright; the angry crowd seized him and he was severely mauled before the police could rescue him. It was later discovered that he was Diasuke Namba, aged 27, son of a minor politician. Formerly a student of Waseda University, he had been forced by circumstances to work as a laborer and had become interested in Communism. He said he had no accomplices and that he had fired the shot in the hope of starting a social...