Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...submitting to a sentence of exile, until released by the general amnesty. Jeeringly Deputy Ybarnegaray cried: "Since he is so guiltless, why has he never applied for a retrial?" By way of added insult Deputy Barillet shrieked: "In 1917 they executed 25 traitors. Thank God they shot them before the amnesty law was passed! Beware how you reinstate Malvy in the very office which he occupied before he was banished! Chacal! What a jackal Minister of Interior...
...TIME, March 8, p. 39, you say that Robert Todd Lincoln was in the Ford Theatre box the evening his father was shot. Is that so? Please ask Mr. Lincoln himself. I was informed by a friend that Mr. Lincoln told him that he was in the White House the night of the tragedy; that his father had asked him to go, but he had refused,, being weary and wanting to go to bed; that he first knew of the affair when some one drove hastily up to the White House and informed him; that then he went immediately...
...First Year. William Fox has made a celluloid comedy out of Frank Craven's brilliant play and done it badly. As you may infer, the plot is about first year married life. Most of it was shrewd character drawing and the small shot of family bickers. These things do not come down well for pictures. Nor were they well interpreted by Matt Moore and Kathryn Perry...
...size of a crocodile, that is, 18 to 21 feet long; a carnivore, a night prowler, a fleet traveler on large but silent feet, which raise his snaky chest and belly clear of the ground. He is called "boeaja darat" and "land crocodile" by the Dutch, who have shot him as long as 12 feet. He is an object of abject terror among the island natives because of his habit of devouring his food with ferocious nocturnal noises. He is fairly easy to hunt, being deaf. He is, scientists believe, a cousin of the smaller monitor lizard (ravager of crocodile...
...Hyatt '24, a former University track star, has distinguished himself under the colors of Oxford University, scoring heavily in the fifty-eighth annual track meet between Oxford and Cambridge last week. Hyatt helped materially last year in Oxford's 6 to 5 victory over Cambridge by winning the shot put and pole vault events. This year, although Cambridge won the meet, Hyatt took two firsts, in the broad jump and pole vault, setting a new meet record in the latter event when he cleared 12 feet in an exhibition leap after having won the event at 11 feet 3 inches...