Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self-sacrifice with her former husband's new wife. The plot is full of "audience value," i. e., emotional sequences rising out of each other so rapidly as to eliminate the narration necessary in ordinary stories. Through its unrealities, Gloria Swanson is handsome, restrained, adroit, in good voice. Best shot:?Swanson saying goodbye to her little...
Thirty-six hours after his attack he was, by sheer force of will, able to greet Dr. Laubry, his specialist, standing on his own feet. Anxiously hovering near was his trained nurse, white-coifed Sister Theoneste. Ten years ago during the Peace Conference, Clémenceau was shot-wounded by a young anarchist named Cottin.* It was Sister Theoneste who nursed him back to health. Last week when his battle for life was hardest, Clémenceau, the confirmed atheist, had called for Sister Theoneste again. She it was who despite his grumbling protests gave him hypodermic injections of camphorated...
...shot came a few minutes before banks were due to open. That morning the doors of Plum's comparatively small Folkebank (capital $1,600,000) remained locked. Cousin Bretteville Plum, the bank's Managing Director, scouted the police theory that Tycoon Plum had intended to commit suicide. Stock of the Folkebank dropped only 15 points. Hours dragged by, with Plum the Great unconscious...
...point of the swinging pendulum cut off many a speculative head. Roaring was the business done by down, town speakeasies. Wild were the rumors of ruin and suicide. In Manhattan, one Abraham Germansky, realtor, was last seen tearing ticker tape. In Seattle, one Arthur Bathstein, finance company secretary, shot himself. Estimates of the number of margineers closed out varies from 20% to 70%. During the first three hours of Thursday stock valuations shrank about $11,250,000,000, recovered all but $3,000,000,000 before trading closed. Brokers met at Hornblower & Weeks, counseled against witless selling, thought the decline...
...They had invented a water bicycle. They had wanted a patent. They had asked Mr. Applebaum to get it for them, then called frequently to see if it had come. Unable to comprehend the law's delay, by nature suspicious and cranky, Brother Pietro now drew a gun, shot Patent Attorney Applebaum to death...