Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They don't tell you to shoot but they might as well?they say not to let a boat get by 'at any cost.' The men are under terrific strain and are constantly being pressed by superior officers for 'results.' They want to keep their jobs and make a record and they shoot...
...driver's debutante daughter lures the magician, but his old flame and vaudeville partner gets him back by misplaying their best act. The act: blindfolded, the girl stands on the stage holding a plate in her hand. Four men inspect marked bullets and regulation rifles, proceed to the gallery, shoot at her. A terrific explosion titillates hysterical audiences, but the girl calmly catches the marked bullets, rolls them in her plate. The misplay: the girl deliberately neglects to substitute graphite for regular cartridges. The prestidigitator gathers her wounded body to him, vows to pass up the debutante...
...conceal his identity, the Hero draped canvas over the word "Mouette" on the cruiser's stern. The Coast Guard announced its right to shoot at anybody who did such a thing. The Mouette reached York Harbor, Me., and one Frank ("Red") Dolan, New York Daily News reporter who had known Lieut. Lindbergh in his pre-hero days at Roosevelt Field, set out for an interview. He reminded the Colonel of the good old days when he liked to pose and asked for just one picture of the Hero's wife, still out of sight below. But the Hero, who, according...
...shouts. The lead pellets, though buckshot, tore only small holes in the ship's fabric. But they might have struck machinery, caused disaster. Had the Los Angeles been inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot at the U. S. Navy's one and only big dirigible. Carpenter Merton Hankins, the lilliputian gunner, was arrested. Last week he was tried for assault with attempt to kill...
Lately Mr. McAdoo, who now is practicing law in Los Angeles and Washington, D. C., bought himself a Wasp-motored Lockheed-Vega ship with seats for five. It can make 180 m. p. h. That is not fast enough to please the owner. He often makes his pilot shoot up at as sharp an angle as possible and nose-dive to the limit of safety. Few men of 65 dare put their hearts to the strain of such quick altitude changes...