Word: shotgunned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think, O Men of Harvard, that Satan only appears on this world with horns, claws, and a tail, or even behind black, handle-bar moustachios, or with a sawed-off shotgun bulging through his trouser-leg, or last of all, only in his especial minions, J. P. Morgan, A. Capone, and B. Zaharoff. Truly I (for I am he) have been well oiled and stream-lined since those silly days...
...Taylorsville home five miles away. Bitterly her son Hugh, 57, World War veteran protested that her dying wish had been to be buried in nearby Nazareth Cemetery. Overruled, he stalked into the night. Near dawn he returned, burst in among the kinsmen keeping the death watch, brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse's saddle and galloped away. A posse found him in Moody Swamp, his mother's body in a ravine. Police forced frightened Negroes to dig a grave in Little...
...revolution more ruthlessly than Germany's famed blood purge of 1934. The secret police of Germany, Russia and Italy are notable organizations. They fade into insignificance before those of Dictator Gomez. For every policeman in Caracas Dictator Gomez kept twelve spies, .male & female, on his payroll. No shotgun was ever big enough to make Dictator Gomez marry and before his death last week he had produced at least So bastards. One of them, Gonzalo, got himself shot last week attempting to stage a deathbed marriage for his mother. From graft alone he assembled the second largest private fortune...
...fully as well as any other one man could have done it. ... He has actually turned some 900,000 acres of submarginal land over to his beloved ducks and other animals. . . . Tears welled in Chief Darling's eyes when his Bureau employes stepped up to hand him a shotgun as a parting gift...
...church elders, was left with a great store of bricks he could not sell. At the same time Ma Hopper, who thought Shackle was not good enough for her daughter, separated them, and Shackle found his girl back in Pewee's arms. He got an old shotgun and started to town to kill them all. Drunk with grief and fatigue, crying, Shackle stumbled along the road, talking to himself...