Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Moses went into New Jersey and had a shot at Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "You people," he said at Bayonne, "are in the centre of a community dominated by an understudy of Tammany Hall. I cannot understand how you can submit to the domination of a machine that is corrupt, rapacious, unrelenting and unforgiving...
...Oklahoma City, the restless tension of the packed streets was punctuated by pistol shots as a policeman shot down a pickpocket. When the special pulled in, there was yelling and tumult from the railroad station to the hotel. The Nominee shaved and received newsgatherers in his bathrobe...
...author, Edwin Burke, believes that love "is the monkey wrench which life has thrown into the machinery of marriage." Perhaps, in the beginning, he wanted to deal with the thing seriously. But, with his gate in mind, he shambles into farce, ends with a drunken and melodramatic pistol shot...
...screen glowed pinkishly; a loud speaker in the same room susurrated A human head appeared on the screen, tiny and wraithlike: its lips moved; simultaneously the loud speaker squawked words. Another head appeared; more words. Hands replaced heads, gestured, poured a liquid, shot a gun, wound a watch; the speaker gurgled, crashed, crackled...
...Panama) failed and Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump for his right leg shot off during the War. And again he urged a sea-level canal-alongside the present-Canal, one to cost a billion dollars (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924). The U. S. War Department has his recommendations on file. U. S. businessmen occasionally wondered if the old engineer was alive...