Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beulah Lewis, widow, living alone, read the Atlanta Constitution until she got sleepy and then went up to bed, taking the cat with her. She was half undressed when the gentlemen in white began breaking down her front door. They roared when, having shot their way into the bedroom, the cat confronted them, licking nervous chops, on the top of a bedpost. One man fired from the hip; the cat tumbled off the post. The woman had fainted but they revived her. Then they stripped her, beat her unconscious...
...situation spoke for itself, so we made camp together and had some fresh gazelle meat which one of the Lieutenant's men had shot that morning. After dinner a native drum was produced coffee was brewed and the Arabs organized a barbershop quartee and sang like forty eat fights. As for the Europeans, I broke out a bottle of Mr. Hennessey's famous product, of the third magnitude, and we proceeded to wax very friendly. Presently, the Lieutenant felt constrained to sing of the charms peculiar to a certain lady from Armentieres, wherenon I retaliated with a spirited...
...toastmaster. James D. Preston, genial superintendent the Senate press gallery, announced the arrival of the world's largest underslung pipe, six feet long, made of pasteboard. "What mal it smell so bad?" chirped an insolent page. Investigations reveal a copy of the "Senate Rules with Dawes' Amendments" (the amendments shot full of holes). From the bowl of the pasteboard pipe other gifts for the Vice President emanated...
...discuss religious matters with one Abdul Rashid, a Mohammedan, at Delhi, capital of British India. Soon they disagreed. The courtly Swami ("Lord") Shradanand sought to avoid dispute by requesting the Mohammedan to call again when they might discourse with cooler heads. Abdul Rashid, vitally vexed, drew a revolver and shot the Swami dead, was captured, jailed...
...under plank bridges to spy up at passing women. Their little brothers were often born just the other side of thin partitions between bedrooms and perhaps only a night or so after they had seen a sow have a litter. Tom remembers how the men of his village shot a horse thief into a pulp. They both remember their "ole swimmin' holes" and the dirty tricks played there...