Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grocery. Now he puts in seven days a week (twelve hours weekdays, six Sundays) at his job. With two brothers and a friend, he operates two stores, one the huge Schwegmann Bros, supermarket, which he proudly calls the "largest in the world." By selling everything from crayfish to shotgun shells-and everything as cheaply as possible-the Schwegmanns will take in close to $7,000,000 this year. "If I do a good job by keeping prices low," says John Schwegmann, "the public will reward me by buying more...
Barrel A-Rolling. The shotgun wedding of history and sex has produced enough incongruities in U.S. fiction to fill a literary museum of horrors. This one comes from Proud New Flags, the latest historical novel by F. (for Francis) van Wyck Mason.* His tetralogy on the Revolutionary War at sea has sold over 1,000,000 copies in all editions. With his new tetralogy on the Civil War at sea, Mason ought to do as well or better...
Near Pikes Peak was a creek with banks so steep that cattlemen named it Cripple Creek. The place was poor for grazing, but some Colorado promoters in 1884 thought it looked like a fine spot for a quick killing. As the story goes, they dug a shaft and fired shotgun charges of gold dust into the sides, spread the word of their "strike," and cleaned up on the dupes who rushed in to buy claims...
...high banks of the Red River. Their supposed purpose: to meet a "hot date" the upperclassmen had fixed up for 18-year-old Freshman Kaplan. They parked the car. Suddenly, as the upperclassmen had planned, another student, impersonating an outraged husband, jumped from behind some bushes and fired a shotgun. The group scattered on the run. The upperclassmen made their way back to the car and waited for Kaplan's sheepish return. But he never came back...
...Lord Is Good." Calm and deliberate, dressed in a neat grey suit, Marshall handled the shotgun questioning by the members of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, under the snorting chairmanship of Texas' Tom Connally...