Word: shotgunned
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...Belleville, Ill., one Sidney Goring, 15, heard his father's farm dogs fighting in a ravine beside the house, ran to see, ran back for his father's shotgun, blazed both barrels, slew a large grey wolf...
...such situation, the shotgun prescription has been-keep all railroads operating; the I. C.C. guarantees a "fair return" of 5 3/4% on income to all; the I. C. C. must "foster and preserve in full vigor" the steam roads; profiting lines must yield parts of their over-earnings to bolster up their weak sister lines (Transportation Act of 1920). The 300 astute gentlemen at Dallas awaited Mr. Loree's blast at this transportation doctrine. He told them bluntly what was what...
...Arkansas stonecutter, cuckold, is reluctantly driven to revenge by public opinion; his joy is great when he finds that the couple he has strangled in the dark are strangers. A Louisiana farmer, despairing of love from his mail-order wife, puts his mouth over the muzzle of his shotgun. A fading saleswoman sees a bearded lover watching daily from a neighboring window for her arisings; discovers the face to be a carved Christ's; resigns herself once more to loving the celluloid doll in her store-window demonstration of a patent crib. There are moments when the author...
...with their wives and children, cultivating their own crops, often saving as much as $1,000 in one term. They rarely try to escape, even though there are no walls or bars. The officers in the colony have only three firearms: the superintendent carries an automatic and has a shotgun for hunting, the keeper of the funds also has a pistol. The Colonel found the system ideal, again doffed his helmet, proceeded on his way to Mindoro,* to Sulu, where a sultan reigns, finally past Corregidor† and back into Manila, where he told the press that the only unpleasant...
Died. James R. Smith, president of the Atlanta Real Estate Board, director of the bankrupt Bankers' Trust Co. and Farmers & Traders Bank of Atlanta; at Atlanta. Bewildered by the bankruptcies, he pressed the trigger of a loaded shotgun with his toe, drove all the gun with his toe, drove the pellets into his abdomen...