Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a definition: "A Nordic is a Southern Democrat who takes a good stiff shot of 100 per cent American corn-and then votes for Hoover...
Twenty persons were killed playing football this autumn and 32 so far have been shot dead by hunters in New York State...
...involving an English slave and a Viking Princess, the old trouble continues -blue is not blue, brown not brown. Melodramatic episodes of Norse swordplay, and voyaging ships give an old-fashioned atmosphere to a story that could not have been exciting even if it were more intelligently directed. Best shot: the discoverer of America* going ashore at Newport...
...those recent films of battle in which the courage and good-nature of the protagonists made war seem a rather admirable, phenomenal cradle of heroes, The Somme is full of death and terror, last cigarets puffed on the ground, bodies, the conquered and the conquering, piled indifferently together. Best shot: a lonely piper, making death musical for a Canadian regiment...
...that speculative law through which the act of purchase increases the value of the thing purchased, Blair & Co.'s acquisition of Prairie stock shot Prairie quotations upward. Indeed, the deal had hardly been concluded when the rise in Prairie prices made the $30,000,000 holding worth $47,000,000. Even before the purchase, however, the two Prairie flowers had been blossoming with unprecedented brilliance. Prairie Pipe Line had a Low for the year of 51. Last week's High was 277. Even Wright Aero, even Radio Corp. have not equalled this record climbing-the most sensational advance...