Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bosom of her brother's West Point classmate, Cadet Trumbull. The Civil War interrupts their incipient idyll. Cadet Trumbull is a Northerner, the Frietchies being, it will be remembered, one of the finer families of slaveholding Frederick, Md. When the times comes for Barbara to say the historic "Shoot if you must this old grey head," her youth and the presence of Trumbull, now a badly wounded Union captain, suggest to her the variation: "Shoot and I'll thank...
...Most of her recent articles, as in the present instance, are Liberal propaganda. She conceives it to be her duty to smile upon her husband's colleagues and to shoot malignant darts at the leaders of the parties in opposition to the Asquithian Liberals...
...Prince also proved his ability as a boxer. In the ship's gymnasium, he had a friendly round or so with the ship's instructor. "You want to shoot that left out sharper, sir," said the instructor. The Prince did, and caught him a good, stiff biff on the jaw. He apologized profusely, but his mentor replied, touching his face tenderly, "I deserved all I got from...
...separately threatened everyone in the cast and all but the upper boxes in the audience. Ralph Kellard, as the husband, brought to this part as full an assortment of plain and fancy sound and fury as it is the misfortune of most witnesses to recall. Finally he did not shoot any one at all and took the wife back to their little paradise-on-the-installment-plan, because he could not order ice and milk. She was a good woman. And had she been as sensible as she was good she would have fanned him with a short, blunt instrument...
...Wonder horses" do not throng the American turf this season. The one beast talked much of as an opponent for Epinard is a Rancocas (Harry F. Sinclair) horse, Grey Lag. He, being of the Star Shoot strain, has suffered the hoof ailments that all of that get seem heir to; may require chiropody to put him in the running...