Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand American Handicap, where men and women shoot together, neither topnotcher won. Winner, as usual. was an obscure gunner: 45-year-old Ortello West, county highway superintendent who had been shooting at and around clay targets for 17 years but never before had won "anything worth having." The $1,000 he won last week will go a long way in his home town of Coshocton, Ohio...
...Governor Hugh White of Mississippi felt a sharp pain shoot through his chest one afternoon last week, followed by pain in his left arm. Specialists bedded him, treated him for severe cardiac fatigue. Two days later he had the comfort of hearing that the Legislature, in special session, had passed in almost the form he wished it his "dream plan": lifting of all State, county and district (but not municipal) taxes from some 133,000 Mississippi homes valued at not more than...
...These pig-dogs making too much public noise with the shoot-guns...
...opera companies. Last week, A. G. M. A. bagged a real prize: an agreement recognizing the union as sole bargaining agent for the artists at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. This killing left only two important U. S. opera companies for A. G. M. A. to shoot at: the Chicago City, and San Francisco...
...more exclusive than polo, class J-yacht racing or court tennis, sportsmen who want to indulge in Vogelschiessen must present a pedigree. Only descendants of these old Saxon craftsmen may shoot. With steel crossbows and steel-tipped wooden bolts, the Thierfelders, Dietzes, Dreschers-now butchers, knitters, iron workers-took turns last week shooting at a double-headed eagle, jig-sawed out of wood and mounted on a pole 30 ft. high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock...