Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Sanders, as the soldier of fortune, is a severe disappointment, and serves only to focus attention on Miss Del Rio, who has been permitted variations on her old role as the femme fatale. She is hown consorting with sinister Orientals, attempting to shoot Mr. Sanders down in cold blood, driving about Shanghai in a Buick cabriolet, which does credit to Director Eugene Forde and in an excellent sequence she is shown fighting her way through a terror-stricken mob during an air-raid. Perhaps the most enjoyable scene, however, is that in which she renders a blues song...
Fortnight ago Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, leader of Egypt's greatest party, the Wafd, lost his job as Premier. Last week, however, he had the laugh on his successor, Mahommed Mahmoud Pasha. Nearly three months ago one of Mahmoud's Greenshirts attempted to shoot Nahas in the street. When the young zealot, Abd El Kadar, was arraigned in court, Nahas instead of demanding the extreme penalty contemptuously asked damages of one piastre (5?). Lest the Wafd make too much capital of this disdain. Premier Mahmoud's Government hastily held Abd El Kadar for criminal trial...
...Equality, Ill., when Robert Micas, a deaf-mute door-to-door magazine salesman, knocked at the home of Mrs. Lucille Shaghuey, she picked up a shotgun, asked through the closed door what he wanted. "If you don't answer," she cried, "I'll shoot." Receiving no reply, she shot Deaf-Mute Micas dead...
Motoring in his Ford roadster over wet roads from Soestdyk Palace to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, fast-driving Prince Consort Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld* saw a heavy sand-laden truck shoot out from a side road. Prince Bernhard slammed on his brakes, skidded, collided with the truck. With a slight concussion, a gash across his face, he was hospitalized, sewed up, put to sleep. His first visitor was Mother-in-Law Wilhelmina. Second visitor (against doctor's orders): Wife Juliana, who expects to present him with an heir in January...
...housewives barren ten years were barren no longer, another became pregnant 15 years after the birth of her last child. His storks now dead, the Earl explained he would not import a fresh batch because "my workers have told me rather forcibly that, if I do, they will shoot the whole...