Word: shootin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sure as shootin', he did. Before Derringer was well into the second inning, Tiger bats began to find him-one, two, three, four, five runs-and the Reds' pitching ace was on his way to the showers. Old Bo-Bo put on a humdinger of a show for his folks, held the Reds to two runs, won the game, 7-to-2. It was the greatest day of his life. But the excitement was too much for his father. That night he died of a heart attack...
...Incident" is no rippin', rarin', shootin', swearin' type of wooly Western bellowdrama, with horsemen riding hell bent for leather towards the Mexican border pursued by pop-gun posses. In Clark's book there is only one shooting and three hangings, all told, and even then the fellow that gets shot ain't killed...
...behalf of two unprofitable British professions has been nicknamed "Prince of Beggars" and "The Midwife's Friend." He is an excellent specimen - almost too good, in days when figureheads are taken to sum up their societies-out of the top drawer of British nobility. A huntin', shootin', fishin' county gentleman, he is not unlike Cartoonist David Low's ultra-ultra-conservative Colonel Blimp. When he left London for his new post, his most edifying remark was to some fellow members of the Marlborough Club: he said he would "try not to let the Club down...
...Party platform (to all intents it was written at the White House), San Antonio's gobliny Mayor Maury Maverick prescribed for the Democratic Party "that aggressive spirit which has made it great." He evoked the Mavericks who pioneered in Texas: "They came praying to God and shootin' Indians. That's the way this country was built and it's the way it's got to be kept alive." One night-Maury Maverick continued-his wife found him praying, said she was "glad that you are praying...
...Netherlands did not arrest its black-shirted onetime waterworks engineer, Anton Adrian Missert (TIME, April 22), but old Dutch General Jonkheer W. Roell, a retired fire-eater who once commanded the Army, growled that shootin' was too good for traitors. He would hang 'em. The Netherlands declared a state of siege, began raiding Dutch Nazis' homes for arms and uniforms...