Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...counted on weighed heavily on his spirit. He shook his head a little sadly. Then he smiled and sort of tossed the mood off: " 'Oh well, James, I see you're still with me.'" Quentin was also with him then- poor little "Quinikins," who was later shot down in an aeroplane over the German lines. "The day the news of Quentin's death came, Mr. Roosevelt was at Oyster Bay. . . . after reading the despatch, he carried the sad tidings to his wife. Then he put his arm around her waist and together they walked in silence...
After a two-day court martial before five German judges, she was sentenced to be shot. By order of General von Sauberzweig, military governor of Brussels, the sentence was conveyed to her in secret the next day and she was executed the following morning...
Plaster. A month ago Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris shot D. E. Chipps to death (TIME, July 26 et seq.). Last week on Sunday, while the pastor shook the rafters with his transcendental, logical harangue, the plaster fell on his hearers, injuring two seriously, 200 slightly, the pastor...
...over desert and bush, to Sydney and Melbourne. And Pilot Alan Cobham, his hand wrung red with congratulations, regaled officials with the story of his 10,000-mile flight from England in 36 days. Crossing Arabia, he had flown low over the desert when "Crack!" a Bedouin sniper had shot his mechanic stone dead. At Basra, Sergeant Ward of the Royal Air Force had volunteered-the listeners' eyes shifted to a beet-red, grinning stalwart beside Pilot Cobham-and together they had whirred high over the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, drifting slightly out of their course and bringing...
...years ago in Omaha, Neb., one Tony Veneziano clutched his throat and toppled into the gutter, never to move again. One Paul Blackwood, accused of his murder, pleaded self-defense, was set free. Last week some gentlemen behind a fence shot and killed Blackwood and his wife as they walked home from the theatre. A detective questioned Mrs. Veneziano...