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Word: shots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...utterly shocked and totally unsympathetic Czechoslovaks, DumDum mer Vuciterna growled an explanation: "I shot him because of a blood feud. We have many in Albania. I did only what any Albanian would. Our code of honor demands a life for a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Blood Feuds | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Chicagoans thought last week they could see rays of hope piercing the city's crime pall. A cigar store clerk outfoxed a thug, shot him dead. Another citizen, halted on Madison Street by the command "Hands up," was amazed to see his assailant fumbling through his own pockets, looking puzzled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Chicago | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...cinema has undergone a more amazing reformation than the one who, holding the rose his sweetheart has given him, is mowed down by pistol bullets while rescuing her innocent lover from the rival gang. Yet in spite of its frail conclusion and the inevitable echoes of the shots which, fired in the play Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with a little cabaret girl (Olive Borden). What she tells one of the reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Story: "A Birmingham-Southern College student was shot and fatally wounded shortly after 9 o'clock Wednesday night in an altercation at the Highland Pharmacy, located at 1000 South Twenty-Sixth Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shooting Story | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...horses pulling on the right, three black horses on the left-with buxom wasp-waisted actresses in picture hats. But his mistress refused to. believe it mere advertisement, cuckolded him with his best friend-a double-dealing popinjay-and broke his heart. The popinjay, balked in blackmailing Jubilee Jim, shot him dead. Tammany-Boss Tweed and Jay Gould sorrowed sincerely; the masses, damp-eyed, mourned vociferously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Another Black Bag | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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