Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Publisher Donald R. Mellett, crumpled and bleeding in his backyard, was not uselessly dead. Shooting him, the Canton underworld had shot away a flimsy facade that has been propped for years between Canton's law-abiding citizenry and a system of back-alley politics and vice-protection fought by Mr. Mellett in his paper...
...drawer. Pious Parson Norris was indicted in 1912 at Fort Worth for perjury and arson in connection with the burning of his church. Disciples did not desert him, rather increased in number. He has soaked Texas evangelical prospects in a religious fervor approaching fanaticism. Dr. Norris drew a pistol; shot. Mr. Chipps fell. Dr. Norris had sent three bullets into him. He died in an ambulance...
...Since then they and many another of their peers or henchmen have fallen a-quarreling over the spoils. So little interest is taken by the populace and even the army in their doings that the last three routine revolutions have been run off without the firing of a single shot...
Died. A. B. Elliott, British air plane mechanic; at Basra, Irak (near Bagdad). A wandering Arab shot him while on duty flying low over the desert in a plane piloted by Lieut. Alan Cobhain...
...Manhattan, John Kuck, of Kansas Teachers' College, picked up an eight-pound ball of iron, whirled it round him on a wire, sent it careering 68 feet ⅝ inches -a new world's record. Untired, he tossed the 16-lb. shot 48 feet 3½ inches for another record...