Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prisoner Fritz David, said to be a German, confessed that at the 1935 Comintern Congress he sat in a box clutching in his pocket a pistol with which to shoot Stalin. "The chance did not come, however," added David. "Police were in the same box with me." Over & over Kamenev, Zinoviev and other prisoners got around to confessing in various ways that their purpose as conspirators was simply to kill Russia's pres-ent rulers and become masters of the State themselves, with no program in mind as to how they would run Russia, and no smallest criticism...
...year-old founder, president, chief designer and test pilot, Major Alexander Procofieff ("Sascha") de Seversky. A short, slim, kinky-haired Russian, "Sascha" de Seversky became a flyer in the Russian Navy during the War, lost his right leg in his first engagement, came back from the hospital to shoot down 13 German planes. Awarded the highest military honors, he was equally renowned for inventing a combination pontoon and ski which allowed Russian Naval planes to continue in service during winter. Just as the Revolution started, he was appointed to an aviation commission visiting the U. S. There he became...
...What if we asked them to send their Art Museum at Volunteer Park up here, or to pack up their lift locks and shoot them over to us by air mail...
...Kike Killer, lady's size." Pointing out that "for a first-class massacre more than a truncheon is needed," the New Masses went on to report that "alongside the patented invention on True's desk lies a Colt revolver. True is a good shot. He practices by shooting at a cake of soap, because [he says] the consistency of soap approximates Jewish flesh." For all who care to join his September Jew shoot, True "promises he can obtain revolvers" from a Washington hardware firm at wholesale prices...
...arraignment, the herbalist claimed he had only been trying to shoot himself, and the official London police account recorded that he was heard shouting when overpowered, "I wanted to shoot myself in front of the King." It appeared from the herbalist's papers that whatever he meant to do was intended as a protest against the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who in the House of Commons last week was called a "liar" by four...