Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field there is an amazing diversity of occupational backgrounds. Sixty-three are experienced farmers, 17 are aviators, 17 newshawks, one a baker, seven professional baseball players, one a surveyor, one an oil gauger, 37 with banking experience. Two were radio announcers. ("That's the pair they ought to shoot," jests Director Hoover...
Always trying to settle down to peaceful pursuits, the boy took part in a drive of 3,000 longhorns over the famed Chisholm trail, caught measles on the way, killed an Indian and five Mexicans, afterwards wrote of one of the killings: "I was going to shoot him again when he begged and held up his hands. I could not shoot a man, even a treacherous Mexican, begging and down. Besides, I knew he would die anyway...
...control. Although Hardin's prejudices were inflamed when he heard that Yankee "Wild Bill" killed only Southerners, they got along well until Hardin once made too much noise while bowling and "Wild Bill" arrested him. Getting the drop on the marshal, Hardin cursed him as one who would shoot a boy in the back. Waiting to be killed, Hickok merely said gravely: "Little Arkansas, you have been wrongly informed." No one knows why "Wild Bill" always called Hardin "Little Arkansas." They became friends again, but that night Hardin lost prestige by killing a cowpuncher. He only regained it when...
When Ways & Means hearings on the tax bill began this week, not even a tentative scale of taxes was available to the public. This did not bother Chairman Doughton unduly. "There is no use drawing a bill," said he, "just to shoot it down...
...rich little girl wanted to shoot a dog that had frightened her, persuaded her father to offer its poverty-stricken owner a hundred pounds...