Word: shotgunned
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There is need for economy in Government expenditures, and quite probably there are some veterans drawing compensation for injuries not connected with War service. But the promulgation of shotgun regulations which so largely harm the deserving would not seem to be a proper method for effecting reform...
...horn was honked by his woman, gun-toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead of prison bloodhounds, ran for refuge into the cabin of a Negro farmer. The Negro covered him with a shotgun, held him until bloodhounds bayed at the door...
Died. Richard John ("Rich") Glendon Jr., 38, Columbia University's crew coach since 1926. son of the Naval Academy's famed retired crew coach; of a shotgun wound, declared accidental by a medical examiner; while duck shooting near Chatham, Mass...
...Pittsburgh, Carl Negley, screaming "I don't care if I get ten years, I can't stand it any longer," fired his shotgun through the ceiling, into the squalling radio of the family upstairs...
...doubt it. I would like to make a dictaphone test. I admit that in crowded and busy places, New York, and so on, conversation is mostly reduced to a minimum, but even there it can be found, and, oddly enough, particularly among those whose novels are distinguished for shotgun brevity between characters. Investigate that point. As to the rest of the country, where there is more leisure, I am convinced from steady observation that people frequently talk at length and to the point. To some people this is boring: to others not, but that it exists and is real there...