Word: shotgunned
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...your story of the Homewood seduction case in your issue of Dec. 19, you say "Will Shakespeare married the girl," intimating that a shotgun wedding took place...
...shotgun wedding theory is based on the fact that Will and Anne's appearance before the clergyman was after intimate relations had taken place. But in Shakespeare's time, legal marriage consisted only in declaration of enamoured couple's intentions of living as man and wife. It was common for the couple not to appear before a minister until, as the papers say, "the stork loomed," which they did mainly to insure the offspring's inheritance. As the clergyman who married Will and Anne was known to be one of the strictest in England...
Denver opening of Silver Dollar was Baby Doe, now a recluse who lives near Denver in a shack built at the entrance of the disused Matchless Mine. Grown eccentric in her dotage, she threatens to shoot visitors with a shotgun, wears remnants of the dresses she wore in Washington when Haw Tabor seemed to be the richest man in the world. She still believes that her daughter, Silver Dollar Tabor-who died, under an assumed name, in a Chicago brothel in 1925-is alive in a convent...
...Howard Beach, Queens, N. Y., George Hoffman, 3, prize baby in Rockaway baby parades, pulled the trigger of a shotgun, instantly killing his uncle, Frank 0. Hoffman...
...Redshaws rested in jail. Fred Redshaw offered to give Andy to the Rochester Zoo if his life were spared. But Miss Mary Foubister, secretary of the Rochester Dog Protective Association, demanded sterner justice. She appealed to the State Conservation Commission, soon was standing by while a State policeman pumped shotgun slugs into Andy until he was dead...