Word: shotgunned
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...elder brother of Nikolai Lenin. Though nothing could be proved against Prisoner Pilsudski, he was sentenced to five years exile in Siberia Last week Dictator Pilsudski remembered that in Siberia he was well treated by sympathetic guards, was even permitted to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
...however, is not a sufficient nor fining rebuke for the crime of malicious defamation upon the name of the dead. It has been truly said that the only defense a private citizen, or even a public official has against a scurrilous yellow newspaper or magazine is the double-barrelled shotgun but unfortunately its use is a violation of the law and in this particular case the heart of the man who should use it had been forever stilled in death before his defamer appeared upon the scene...
...many a missing student had merely burrowed into hiding. Police walked the streets of Havana in pairs, carbines crooked under their arms. Newspapers were firmly gagged,* except the Administration's Heraldo de Cuba which growled: "The arm of popular will cannot be the bomb or the cowardly employed shotgun. With such weapons a few children and women and even men may be killed, but the Fatherland cannot be killed with them...
...Oscar, but then everything was all right. Laura's baby "come so little ahead of time it wasn't hardly noticeable," but poor Laura married the wrong man. When Lizzie and Carl had a lover's quarrel, Ma straightened it out herself with a shotgun. Evie had a real wedding with all the fixings; but her sisters were horrified when she told them why she had no cause to hurry...
...newspaper director and censor, was well known as organizer of President Machado's ruffianly strong-arm squad, the "Partida de la Porra" (Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio Ainciart, head of the national police, who put in a busy morning chasing reporters and smashing cameras. In the suburbs police stopped a green automobile containing three passengers...