Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incidents occurred yesterday when, having quarrelled, it is reported, over the ingredients of a salad, the lady fired seven shots from a revolver at her friend. As she is remarkably proficient in everything she undertakes, every shot took effect. The man lives, but in a much perforated condition, in which every vital organ has been missed by a hair's breadth. The doctors even predict his recovery...
...dewy morning two years ago, squat George Remus, onetime 'legger and Federal convict, chased his wife Imogene, who was suing him for divorce, across the grass of a Cincinnati park. He caught her, shot her dead. Tried for murder, he claimed she had plotted his death. He pleaded insanity, was acquitted. A writ of habeas corpus soon freed him from Ohio's State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. "Ohio justice," like "Indiana politics," became a national byword...
Alcohol. "The greatest single source of liquor supply today is the alcohol diverted illegally from concerns bearing the stamp of respectability in the form of a government permit. . . . To trace leaks has become well-nigh impossible. The Government's policy has been like pouring BB shot on the floor with one hand and trying to pick it up with the other." Commercial alcohol production in 1918: 50,000,000 gals.; in 1928: 90,000,000 gals. Smuggling: "The leak second in importance is border smuggling. Illicit importation seeks the low moral levels of our border service. . . . Detroit...
...garden of Chang's hotel at Beppu, a Japanese island summer resort. Last week the Beppu police made no protest when indicted Chang Tsung-chang and his suite journeyed to the neighboring port of Moji, conferred with an elder brother of the youth whom he had shot...
Because Paul Bunyan knows no law, it was not surprising that the ceremonies should have been interrupted by one Gunnar Scheftstrom, ex-convict, who held up a Longview merchant, shot him, fled to the forest. Human, he could not escape with Bunyanesque speed. A posse smoked him out in full view of an audience...