Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunters straggled back to their rustic hotel that evening, only Professor Canning had bagged a boar. He told his story with becoming modesty: "Bryson saw the tracks and said, 'Get in front.' About that time he pointed out two boars in a briar patch. I tried to shoot the big one, but I started shaking and my eyes watered until I couldn't see. When I got control of myself the big one was gone. I shot at the smaller one and he went down. We got close and had to shoot three more times to kill...
Clark Hodder will again have charge of the squad and "Skeets" Canterbury will take the embryonic not minders under his wing for another year. With the undefeated record of last year's sextet, which included a 9-1 trouncing of the Eli first-year men, to shoot at, this season's sextet will have to hustle to prepare for the first game with Framingham High which comes on December 9. Two more games with Rindge Tech on December 15 and with Milton Academy on December 16 will be played by the Freshmen before the Christmas holidays...
Least inclined of all to ''shoot Santa Claus" were the Canadian Government of Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who have been in mortal fear lest Alf Landon in the White House might crimp the Canadian-U.S. Trade Treaty. This treaty has proved one of the most potent forces in spurring Canadian recovery and the New York Times's Ottawa correspondent wired that its rupture would be "a dagger-thrust for the present Canadian Government...
...return to Bucharest. Rumania's Fascist Iron Guard made it abundantly clear that they disapproved of his hobnobbing with President Benes whom they consider far too sympathetic toward Russia for their peace of mind. In a bold manifesto, the Iron Guard declared they "will not hesitate to shoot Carol down rather than fight for Bolshevism...
...grim and intense proletarian defender of Madrid, Premier Largo Caballero, and his Cabinet climbed into automobiles, drove rapidly away to Valencia on the seacoast 24 hours after he had declared, like a Chinese general: "Under no circumstances will I abandon Madrid alive! If the insurgents break through, I will shoot myself...