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Word: shots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never really got me but they've come pretty close sometimes. Look at that. See right along the middle of that finger where that scar is. I got that one night out on the road. Yeah a bunch of 'feds' were chasing me and one of them took a shot. It broke the windshield of my car and grazed my fingers, but I got away all right. Guess I was just more of a fool on the sharp corners than they were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bootlegger Describes Interesting Incidents of a Very Adventurous and Hazardous Trade | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...little figure that he broke it and felt himself a murderer. Since the story belonged legitimately enough backstage there had to be a series of chorus numbers, with the result that the drama was entirely submerged. Most screen plots, of course, are not worth much to a shot...

Author: By Richard WATTS Jr., | Title: Talkies Even More Uniform Than Silent Productions--Backstage, College Lead | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...inappropriate. Proper picturization of the grim penal colony on Devil's Island* calls for another quality than charm. This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism. Best shot: Louis Wolheim, the toughest man on Devil's Island, exposing a ring of tattoo-marks around his neck, with the legend: "Cut on the dotted line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsreel Theatre | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago one Benjamin Friedman was shot in the mouth while pursuing a gunman who had held him up. He spat out three teeth, chased on, wondered where the bullet had gone. At a hospital he learned he had swallowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Kirksville, Mo., gunmen accidentally shot Mrs. William Wilson through the left breast. She did not die. An X-ray showed that her heart was on her right side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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