Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize-ring, Author Rideout does more than answer his suspense. The prancing Senegalese is a faithful friend to Israel Dubois; seeing that his friend and the officer have bad blood between them, he starts for the Major with his knife, and Israel Dubois, who has drawn gun to shoot his white master, feels the tug of an ancient loyalty and kills his black friend instead...
Quotas. The managerial conferences ended with the impression that the Beaver Man is, more than ever, his own manager-in-chief. The Hooverlike scheme of vote quotas for each State to "shoot at" superseded Dr. Hubert Work's idea of specialized drives among women or in the South. Returning to Colorado, his own home State, Chairman Work proceeded to lecture the local G. O. P. Unless it ceased its internal quarreling he predicted "a greatly reduced majority, if any." He said: "You in Colorado have become careless of your party...
...Lewis Walker of the Panama Canal Zone, permitting him to try to swim the 50 miles of the Canal. He started. No long-distance swimmer, this self-generator of publicity intended to interrupt his feat every time he grew tired. A soldier in a motor boat accompanied him to shoot at any obnoxious alligators. Trans-canal steamship passage was not halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred dollars to open the canal locks needed for the swim. At Gatun Locks Swimmer Halliburton paid 36? (correct charge on a tonnage basis...
...policeman, thinking he spied the assassin, whipped out his revolver and began to shoot at the scurrying cub. Someone knocked up the policeman's arm, thus saving to posterity a famed storyteller. Cub Cobb's name was Irvin S. Cobb, who lived to write Speaking of Operations, A Laugh a Day, Here Comes the Bride, etc., etc., and to reminisce last week about the Goebel murder, perhaps as famed a murder as there is in all hard-shooting Kentucky's history...
William S. ("Hog Jaw") Taylor was his name. He was the candidate who had the Governor's office while Goebel contested it. At his trial it was testified that he offered $2,500 to the man who would shoot Goebel. When Goebel was declared Governor by the Legislature, "Governor" Taylor's friends had assembled an army of 1,500 hillbillies in Frankfort for a finish fight. After the shooting, "Governor" Taylor called out the Militia. Frankfort seethed for weeks...