Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James Clarkson Gillmore, 72, last Commodore in the U. S. Navy (rank became extinct in 1899); in Washington, D. C. When Filipinos took him prisoner during the Spanish-American War he was lined up to be shot, refused to have his hands tied, said: "It is not a fit way for an officer and gentleman to die." His captors debated, were interrupted by a rescue party, finally released...
...first period of the Harvard--Princeton match was scoreless, and was marked by good up and down the field playing on the part of both teams. W. H. White '28 was the first to tally with a shot from scrimmage near the goal in the second period. This advantage was quickly eradicated by Borden, number 2 rider for the Tigers, who scored once in that period and then was largely instrumental in the scoring of his team's two counters in the next chukker. During the last three periods Borden continued to dominate the play, scoring three goals himself...
...memory" to which M. Daudet referred was the suicide (according to the police) of his son, Phillipe, who, while riding in a taxicab, allegedly shot himself (1923). Editor Daudet has always charged that the police "murdered" his son, and for this "defamation" he was sentenced, 18 months ago, to serve five months in jail. As the hour of 1 p. m. approached last week, tout Paris kept an eager ear for news that policemen had swarmed over sandbags and barbed wire, rushed the "Camelots" and dragged a plump, irate editor to jail. Instead it was a group of Communists...
...Ernestina Calles Robinson, recently, married to a Manhattan businessman, was en route to Mexico City from the U. S. The President stood for a long time beside the bier with three of his sons. His son, Rodolfo, is still suffering from the wound which he received when shot at by a policeman who bore him a grudge (TIME...
...fund Tom Mix. As he said later when grilled by the state's attorney, "If it isn't Tom Mix, who is it?" For sure enough there was either Will Rogers or Tom Mix riding the famous Tony and swinging the famous rope and telling fast ones while he shot buffaloes from nickles thrown by an Indian hanging in mid-air by his toes from the shoulders of a bandit. "Whee", quoth my roommate, "Whee". So then and there I decided to take him to commencement...