Word: shooter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this year, M. I. T. has three decisive victories to its credit, with Nee leading the team in scoring. Lawson is also an accurate shooter, and these owe their scores as much to the team-work of the quintet as to individual ability...
...respondent (together with Augustus John, the British painter) in the famed Gough divorce case in London. He once fought a duel over a horse, refused to fight another duel with Jeweler Cartier for a fancied insult. He was sued last year for accidentally peppering a fellow grouse-shooter with birdshot...
...returns of the Mexican presidential election were reported. To a nation which has shown such political apathy as has characterized the general run of elections in the United States in recent years, the picture of all Mexico marching to the polls armed with the franchise and the six-shooter presents a decided contrast...
Last week Texan Howe got some more publicity by attacking Texan White on a question of prime importance to all professional Texans, namely: What does a Texas rattlesnake do when you go to blow its head off with your six-shooter? Texan White had written, old-style, that the snake will follow the movement of the gun-muzzle so closely with its head that you cannot fail to hit the snake's head when you pull the trigger. Texan Howe experimented, fired many a shot at many a Crotalus adamanteus atrox, missed their heads again and again, then angrily...
...town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still lie under Boot Hill sod. On this traditional spot the "Last Roundup" laid the cornerstone of a new city hall. Then a statue was unveiled of a cowboy, appropriately drawing his six-shooter, said the inscription: "On the ashes of my campfire this city is built." The figure was carved by O. H. Simpson, onetime pioneer dentist...