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Word: shotgunned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lieutenant approached, calling for the fugitive to surrender peaceably, he could see that the man's clothing was a, patchwork of deer and rabbit skins. Incongruity upon incongruity, the man appeared to be a Negro. The discharge of a sawed-off shotgun was his answer to the police. Then he jumped through a window, started running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wild Giant | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...Springfield, Mass., Charles Smith, 21, after purchasing five shotgun shells in a sport store, asked to see some shotguns. The clerk showed him one and then went down to the basement. Charles Smith put a shell in the gun, blew his own head off. A note in his pocket said: "Thanks a lot for the gun. I couldn't afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 28, 1932 | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

Last week, after three months of debate, the sportsmen were agreed on their remedy. Introduced in the House by Congressman John W. McCormack of Massachusetts was a bill to raise $7,000,000 a year through a 1? tax on shotgun shells, most of the revenue to be spent to conserve and increase U. S. waterfowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pennies for Ducks | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...uses it like a brass rail. Neatest tricks: a high dive by the big soprano, relaxed as any trained ballerina, straight into the arms of Tenor Marek Windheim and Baritone Louis D'Angelo; a shooting exhibition by Assistant Conductor Carlo Edwards who borrowed a shotgun from a neighboring speak-easy after the show, potted some 30 balloons which had escaped during a carnival scene to the tip top of the Metropolitan's dome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Donna Juanita | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...Kansas City, Mo., Hazel ("Bubbles") Blacketer quarreled with her lover, Milton Smith, broke his whiskey bottle. Complained Smith: "You love Snooks (her Pekingese) more than you love me. I'm going to take him for a ride." Bubbles Blacketer killed Milton Smith with a shotgun, told police: "I'm sorry I shot him. but he had no business treating Snooks that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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