Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caillaux (his second wife) shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro. It was established that she acted to protect herself and her husband from the publication by Le Figaro of documents tending to demonstrate their mutual moral turpitude at an earlier period and his current civil dishonesty. Though infuriated mobs attempted to lynch them both in the streets, Mme. Caillaux escaped conviction. So abysmal was their disgrace that his few remaining influential friends rushed him out of France on a flimsily concocted "mission" to South America...
...women who Sacrifice their lives for a religious faith are known to their fellow adherents as martyrs, to opposing sects as fanatics. The latter term was the one used in newspaper despatches to define 25 Wahhabis who were shot by Egyptian soldiers last week in the streets of Mecca...
South Africa puzzles U. S. business men. I met a fellow who was genuinely surprised to find that I was not colored. Others were dumbfounded to hear that the Boers were quite civilized, that I was a typical Boer. Most people seem to think that lions and tigers are shot as easily in Capetown as cashiers and jewelers in New York.-Eric H. Louw, Commissioner for the Government of the Union of South Africa...
...infested interior of Brazil. It was her first venture of the kind but she admitted to no qualms at the thought of traveling 10,000 mi., of entering jungles never visited by white men. Seeing her off at the dock, her husband also denied uneasiness: "She is a splendid shot, you know." To guide and protect her there were seven scientists under the command of famed George K. Cherrie, taxidermist and hunter of Roosevelt expeditions to the River of Doubt, Africa, Turkestan. To afford her feminine company and comfort there was Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, wife of Naturalist Seton...
...touched on the South American and African coasts for repairs and to collect plant and animal life. Her commander, George Finlay Simmons, set about discharging his cargo of 12,000 specimens under the direction of Paul M. Rea, Cleveland museum chief. Braving superstition, the Blossom's men had shot an albatross, hooked a golden dolphin...