Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lattimer and rounded up his gang. To pass the time until the cavalry arrives he starts a poker game. The man behind the bar, a cringing knave outstandingly played by Porter Hall finds a gun in a drawer. It takes him half the sequence to get nerve enough to shoot Bill Hickok in the back. Finally he does...
...cheap and therefore inconspicuous night boat from this port to France is about to sail, Mrs. Simpson arrives in the Buick the King gave her, accompanied by his bodyguard, a secretary and chauffeur. In a private cabin she tosses for four hours on a medium rough crossing. French police shoot her baggage through the customs unopened. The Buick roars away and at 3:30 a. m. it brings Mrs. Simpson to Rouen for the night. She telephones King Edward who has just had another night session with Mr. Baldwin, this time at the snuggery, from which the Prime Minister departs...
...November, 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt, hunting bear in Mississippi, refused to shoot a cub brought into camp for him to kill. This illustration of Roosevelt I's compassion was cartooned by Clifford K. Berryman of the Washington Post, who sketched the cub as a cuddly, koala-like animal, thus created the "Teddy bear'' which became T. R.'s totem until the Bull Moose movement of 1912. First toy Teddy bears were made in Germany by famed stuffed Toymaker Margarete Steiff, who is believed not to have copied the koala...
...Lawrence T. K. Griswold of Quincy, Mass., set out in the autumn of 1934 after still rarer game-the giant panda of western China. No white man had ever seen this curious creature until a French missionary chanced on one in the late 19th Century. First white men to shoot one were Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt, in 1929. No giant panda had ever been brought out alive...
...animals bagged was of the true wild Russian stock. This week, however, in a new batch of huntsmen, two Knoxvillites named Carey House and Hugh Vandeventer killed an authentic Russian 250-pounder which suddenly dropped after rushing "so close that we were unable to shoot during the latter part of his charge for fear of hitting each other...