Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their brother's brother" and that, "the Parish people wanted more blood." You don't know what you are talking about and you are what decent Southern people call "nigger lovers." The Blackmans were bad niggers, bullies, bootleggers, makers of moonshine and thieves. Last year their father shot out the eyes of a little white boy. We live in harmony with our good niggers-strange ties of affection exist between the white gentry and the darkies. There had not been a lynching in Rapides Parish in twenty-five years, yet you call this "the customary thing." Be ashamed...
There were some labor-union leaders to be lunched and golfed with; two bridges between Staten Island and New Jersey to open formally; a clemency plea from two convicted murderers to consider. There was an inaccurate "shot" in a Prohibition film to denounce and have omitted. Then there was Mrs. Smith's departure for Houston, the first time in a long time that Alfred Emanuel Smith had been separated from his wife for any great length of time. So Alfred Emanuel Smith had plenty to think about last week besides politics...
...film called Deliverance, a moral romance meant to advertise among Y. M. C. A. men the stirring statistics of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist and Dry propagandist. The script had called for a picture of Governor Smith signing a bill. The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement...
...appeal to the Opposition by puppet-President Ignatz Moscicki was ignored. A story gained credence that the sick Lion of Poland had fallen victim to delusions of persecution, had shot his own gardener, was raving, confined in a straitjacket...
Died. William Alexander Guerry, 66, Bishop of the South Carolina Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church; shot, for no known reason, by the Rev. J. H. Woodward, retired clergyman in his diocese. Assassin Woodward committed suicide immediately after firing at the bishop...