Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vermont boyhood, Calvin Coolidge was reputed to be a crack squirrel shot...
...affiliated gangsters were also murdered last week. Alfonso Fiori, 36, the father of nine children, was found lying in a gutter with his head torn from its moorings by a charge of shotgun slugs. Benjamin J. Schneider, realtor and bootlegger, was shot to death in front of his home...
Nine months later Miss Edith Louisa Cavell was shot by the Germans because she admitted using her Red Cross prerogatives to shelter and further the escape of some 200 Allied soldiers, prisoners of the Germans. The revelation prompted a search for more hidden Allied soldiers. One day a German captain came to search the house of Mme. Belmont-Gobert...
...shot in the dusk is scarcely news at Tirana-that little, vile, ill-favored capital. But last week the bullet was Italian, the blood Albanian. That was news. The shadowy man who fired the shot made good his escape-perhaps he was not Italian after all-but soon Albanians and Italians were arguing in the streets with shiny steel. Five men lay dead at last, according to report. Two dead were Italian, and all the living knew that Italy might intervene under her new treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear...
...Miss Catherine Bary" and became a designer, mounted the stage with a bunch of roses which she extended toward Speaker Kerensky. As he bent forward to accept them she struck him three times across the left cheek with her gloves, screamed in Russian: "By your order my fiance was shot in Russia! I do this to avenge...