Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it became apparent that Mr. Dimond was not unduly alarmed. From the captain of the Bering Sea schooner Sophie Christenson came a radio to home offices at Seattle: "Bering Sea covered with Japanese fishing boats and nets. . . . No cutters around. We have God-given instinct to shoot straight. Please ship dozen high-powered rifles, plenty of ammunition...
...little at the name of Conant, as if he remembered player of the name. Upon being assured that Conant was the bona fide president of Harvard, the better half of "Me and Paul" declared, "He is dead right, he's O.K.; there's a plenty of rich guys that shoot their kids off to college and then watch 'em fold up and get useless." Thoughtfully he added, "It's a pity, that's what it is, a pity...
...river which is battered and exhausted from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices--not in smooth little aprons but in balls of white water which shoot far out into the air and then plummet downwards like rockets, leaving behind them long confetti-streamers which are lost below in dense clouds of mist. Down their in the flat valley, the river could forget this roaring nightmare and become a lazy serpent of varied greens; light greens where the bright...
Willie Cornelius Rogers, a former Oklahoma village schoolmaster, is pained by the unkind suggestion that multitudes of people voted for him for Congressman in 1932 under the misapprehension that he was an ex-cowboy who cracked jokes. His chief accomplishment in Washington was to shoot a hole-in-one on the Soldiers' Home golf course. He got through the 1934 and 1936 elections all right, but this year he is worried. By this time, of course, news has filtered through to the masses that the real Will Rogers was killed in an airplane crash in Alaska in 1935. What...
...unpleasant workers who made their living on tips for showing balcony patrons to orchestra seats. From Paddy Harmon, manager of the Chicago Stadium, Andy got his first big job; was soon so successful that Chicago hoodlums demanded a cut. He beat up their emissary. Four mobsters then tried to shoot him, but he and two of his brothers gave all four a beating. Usher Frain was never troubled again...