Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rings true. Rasputin moves evilly through the picture, and Kerensky, Lenin, the dreaded Cheka are delineated with more than a modicum of truth. It is a colorful, kaleidescopic tale, ranging from scenes among the simple, suffering peasants to all the lavish splendor of the Imperial Court ?the whole shot through with the sharp truths of racial contrast and alien heritage...
When Mme. Caillaux entered the office, Calmette received her politely, asked what he could do. Said she: "It is needless for me to pretend that I am making a friendly call." She then took out her revolver, fired one shot. M. Calmette fell to the ground. Mme. Caillaux then fired the remaining four shots, only one missed. The anger of the Parisiens was aroused. Caillaux was repeatedly attacked by furious mobs and the day following the murder he resigned...
Captain Sourov, aide to Admiral Kolchak who tried in 1920 to wrest Sovietland from the Bolsheviki, was sentenced to death. He said he was sorry, promised to become a "100%" Bolshevik. It made no difference, amnesty was refused, he was shot...
...stenographers. Last week the ticker reported that a dividend of 75? a share had been declared upon Mother Lode Coalition Mines. Immediately the gentry who make a living for a while by trading on the tape hurled orders t into the market to buy "Mother Lode," whose price soon shot up from...
...Shot-put.--Won by Hartrauft, Stanford, 49ft. 5 7-8in.; second, Hill, Princeton, 49ft. 5 3-8in.; third, Houser, Southern California, 48ft. 9 7-8in.; fourth, Anderson, Southern California, 46ft. 2 1-8in.; fifth, Eastman, Harvard, 46ft...