Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father's assassination. Two years later he was admitted to the bar in Illinois and shortly afterward married. In 1881 he became Secretary of War under President Garfield. He arrived one day at a railway station to meet Mr. Garfield, and as he did so Garfield was shot. He was the only member of Garfield's Cabinet retained by President Arthur; so he served a full four years. Then he went back to law and became special counsel to the Pullman Co. In 1889 President Harrison sent him to London as Ambassador. His four years in London were...
...Major Cavanaugh in his speech before the Debating Union asserted with great gusto and assurance that he had heard of no overemphasis of football at New Haven, that no hint of it had come from Princeton, and that any one who mentioned such a thing at Hanover would be shot at dawn. But it seems that the Major was a bit premature...
...April, 1918, the great German super-ace, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, was shot down in France and buried by his enemies with full military honors...
Amid so much pomp it was recalled that Baron von Richthofen had ever been a scorner of the conventional mediocrities of mankind. When he was shot down at last, he was found wearing a flaming suit of silk pajamas under his aviator's uniform. Said mourners: "His pajamas and his famous blood-red battle plane were typical of the man-a flaunting, brave, exuberant war eagle. His like has not often been seen...
...went away from a humble job to a position where hours were shorter and pay higher. A fortnight later he returned. "Higher, pay?--yeah. But do you know what they wanted me to do? Bang together a bunch of boards into a ramshackle barn for a target, and one shot from a gun 14 miles way blows it away...