Word: shots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., a farmer of German descent, Charles Bollmeyer, argued hotly over the crisis with his wife (of Polish descent), finally shot her in the hips, chest, stomach with a shotgun. Throughout the U. S. men & women streamed to the Polish, German, British, French and Italian consulates, offering to enlist as reserves, volunteers, nurses. U. S. Poles quickly collected $1,000,000 for Warsaw. Everywhere consulates kept open doors all day except the British, which closed each afternoon at 3:30 p. m. for 4 o'clock tea. Thousands of aliens rushed to naturalization offices, seeking...
Army. With thousands removed, imprisoned, or shot in the purge (including 213 commanders and commissars), Russian soldiers were still sufficiently bewildered at the about-face to win an explanation from Marshal Klement Vorshilov himself. Said he: military staff talks with British and French officers were broken off because Poland refused to permit Russian troops on her soil. Pontificated the Marshal: "Just as the British and American troops in the past World War would have been unable to collaborate with the French armed forces if they had no possibility of operating in French territory, the Soviet armed forces could not participate...
...Prime Minister Chamberlain, he had an influence, a possible future and a voice in affairs that made his position unique. That he was there at all said much about him, more about British politics. Statesmen out of office make speeches in the U. S., particularly at college commencements; are shot in Russia, generally after confessing themselves allied to Jack the Ripper; disappear in Germany without having a chance to do that. But in Great Britain they may step back to the House of Commons, start over, criticize and mold Government policy by the weight of their experience-particularly...
...Americas, sad-eyed, 35-year-old President Lieut. Colonel German Busch gave a birthday party in his home for his Japanese brother-in-law, Kovichi Seito. About 5:30 a.m.. a few minutes after the young Dictator had retired to an upper room, his guests heard a shot. They found German Busch with a bullet hole in his temple. Quick surgery failed to save him. Suicide, escape from nervous exhaustion induced by his labors for Bolivia's welfare, was the official explanation. No one came forward to suggest any darker explanation, but observers looked for a change...
...guardsmen. By this time the lion, bored and weary, had curled up behind a divan, was peacefully snoozing. It was not the moment for the niceties of hunting etiquette. Marksman Peskin was taking aim, when the Amazone's Captain Nyhoff nervously reminded him that a luckless shot in the gunpowder magazine might blast them all to kingdom-come. Swallowing his professional pride, Marksman Peskin inched closer, then fired. The bullet pinked the beast between the eyes, but miraculously he bounded across the deck, roaring like a pampero. Drawing a bead on the rampaging lion, each guardsman fired. This time...