Word: volleyings
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...last week, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heavy-jowled, fearsomely mustached, tightly hooked into his light blue tunic, handed his wife into an automobile in front of the Serajevo town hall. A few moments later as the automobile passed by the Lateiner bridge over the Miljacka River, a volley of pistol shots rang out. The Archduke and his wife slumped forward, dead. That shooting by the Serajevo bridge, fuse of the World War, brought death to millions. Incidentally it brought independence from Austria to the province of Bosnia and the creation of the Jugoslav Kingdom. Last week all Jugoslavia celebrated...
...agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield was splintered to bits, its bow bored in with leaking holes, its engine damaged. A final volley came from the rumrunner as it slipped away to hiding in the Canadian marsh. No. 1401 had to chug back to its dock for repairs...
...manner in which Leader Watson led the Senate brought down upon that body a volley of editorial abuse. It was accused of perversity and pique. The Press harped upon uncomplimentary comparisons: the late great Henry Cabot Lodge would never have permitted such legislative chaos; Charles Curtis had steered a far straighter course...
Suddenly two figures leaped up before him in the middle of the road. One held a sign: STOP! U. S. CUSTOMS OFFICERS. Virkula braked his car but had not stopped before a volley of shot tore through the rear windows. The car plunged into a ditch. Virkula was dead, a slug in his neck...
...Princeton's pride. He was graduated last year. He will probably grow no taller and, because he is all smooth sinew, not much heavier. His service, smashes and forehand drives are orthodox and highly accurate. Last week in Brooklyn he revealed a new (for him) half-volley which frequently caught the aging Tilden flatfooted. In addition he has an aggressiveness nerve-wracking to the man across...