Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elections at a time when the opposition parties are known to be financially embarrassed may well return Mr. Cosgrave and his party to the next Dail with a comfortable surplus of votes; for his narrow escape has alarmed the conservative business element and has shot Irish politics with a keenness it has lacked since the first Free State elections. At present everything points to a big victory for Mr. Cos- grave...
Floods came, winds blew and beat upon the golfers at Port-marnock, Ireland. Players were wrenched from their stances, so fierce was the gale sweeping in from the Irish Sea. The luncheon tent was blown away in large ribbons. Ernest Whitcombe, one of the best, took five shots to reach one green in the teeth of the tumult. Larry Nabholtz, U. S. professional, "picked up" after a morning round of 91. Wild Bill Melhorn, only other U. S. entrant, took an excellent 82 on the final round but his aggregate was 324, out of the running. Only three players broke...
...Manhattan, the Underwood photography service issued a picture of a monstrous cannon tilted skyward, ejecting from its muzzle a human figure. The cannon .was real, the figure a German woman who, at Berlin, allowed herself to be shot from the cannon into a net 40 metres distant, without injury...
Bruce Armstrong (Richard Arlen) after a fall disentangles himself from his battered machine, forced down behind the enemy lines. He steals an enemy plane, wings his way toward his own camp. Meanwhile, his true friend, John Powell (Charles Rogers), hearing that Bruce has been shot down by the Germans, sallies forth, Achilles-like, to demolish Germania for its destruction of his Patroclus. His sputtering machine-gun bespeaks grim, relentless rage. Prussian planes careen downward, leaving swift trails of smoke. Sausage-shaped dirigibles collapse in flames, Armstrong in the German plane flies joyously toward his heroic friend but is not recognized...
...beat, gave chase. "Stop!" he bellowed, lumbering after his prey. Scared, the little man he was chasing ducked into a bystreet. "They must be after somebody," he thought. "I don't want to get hit if they start shooting." Patrolman Burns, scenting adventure, shot twice into the air to make an effect...