Word: shotgunned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sheriff Lainson deputized 100 Council Bluffs citizens at $3.50 per day each, armed them with baseball bats and pick handles after one Claude Dail had been accidentally killed while being instructed in the operation of an automatic shotgun. Sent out to Route 34 to break up the principal picket line, deputies jostled the strikers around indecisively, cluttered the highway, halted trucks, witlessly helped the strike...
Died. Raymond D. Little, 52, publisher, sportsman, onetime (1906) Davis Cup tennist, with Gustave F. Touchard national doubles champion in 1911; by his own hand (shotgun) in Manhattan...
Finally a pistol battle took place in the publishing plant of Berlin's world-famed Socialist daily Vorwdrts ( Forward!"). Shooting from behind their presses, Socialist pressmen repulsed invading Fascists who, however, severely-wounded two pressmen. Later a sniper concealed in the Vorwarts building pointed a shotgun at Fascists marching past in the street, squeezed the trigger, badly wounded one Fascist...
Under the auctioneer's gavel last week went famed 101 Ranch, bringing sorrow to the hearts of many a cowboy, cowgirl, Indian chief & squaw, including onetime Cowboys Will Rogers & Tom Mix, but mostly to the heart of Col. Zachary Taylor Miller, owner, who lay abed ill with a shotgun standing in the corner...
...Zack Miller lay abed. Two employes tried to talk loudly enough to keep him from hearing the shouts of the auctioneer. Then two attorneys for Receiver Clarke entered the room, announced that harness, cows and pigs were being sold. Up jumped Col. Miller and reached for his shotgun. As the two lawyers turned to run?Bow!?he fired into the floor behind them...