Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...counsel would have you believe ? Is he not rather of the all too familiar charlatan and demagog type?like Alcibiades, Catiline, and except for a decided difference in poise and mental powers in Burr's favor, like Aaron Burr? He is a good flyer, a fair rider, a good shot, flamboyant, self-advertising, wildly imaginative, destructive, never constructive except in wild non-feasible schemes, and never overly careful as to the ethics of his methods...
Robert A. Gardner (Mitchell, Hutchins & Co., Chicago) and George V. Rotan (Newhaus & Co., Houston), in an exhibition golf match against Walter Hagen and Gilbert Nichols (trick-shot artist), beat them...
...come to claim her for the little comic opera kingdom as its heir presumptive, the daughter of the King's youngest son. For a girl in her early teens, Ernestine Sophie has admittedly a remarkable amount of poise, extraordinary insight and understanding. She likewise develops into an excellent shot with the revolver. So she goes to the intriguing little court and sets it upon its ear. The Princess finds two men who love her dearly, besides revolutionary plots and a near-revolution, but all are successfully quelled and at 16 Ernestine becomes Her Majesty. The story is one part...
...woman who divorced Jack Gilbert before he had played in "The Merry Widow", is chief bandit in this picture. Bad as she may have been, it seemed unnecessarily brutal to make her stand by during a cinematic thunderstorm while her brother, and the rest of the cast, took pot-shots at her. But she scrambled bravely up two or three hundred feet of precipice, as advertised, and reached her destination. The native girl did wing her once in the shoulder with a shot gun, but she struggled on and threw the bomb out of dangerous proximity. All this goes...
Whatever the merits of this entertaining dispute over the state of English letters, it is not to be denied that the American makes a telling point in his parting shot, as he deftly turns the argument toward the independence and importance of the literature of his own country: "The plain fact is that the Republic has cut the painter and has begun to go it alone. There is, no doubt, a wrench. It is, I suppose, painful. But I don't know anything that is to be done about...