Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Stefan Raditch, uncle of Paul, and Leader of the Opposition, was the assassin's primary target but received only a bullet wound in the stomach from which he was said, last week, to be "rapidly recovering...
Rickard. George L. ("Tex") Rickard, Manhattan prizefight promoter, who was indigent when he left Texas years ago, went to Houston in a private car. His opinion was sought on some holes in the glass of an elevator door in the Rice Hotel. They were supposed to be bullet holes made by a Texan impatient for an elevator. Opined Promoter Rickard: "They were made by some fellow with his cane...
...testimony was helpful in sending Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti to the electric chair (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927). He identified the bullet that killed the South Braintree, Mass., paymaster as coming from a revolver later found on Sacco...
...public? Bah! The public be damned . . ." snorted bullet-headed Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt many years...
...Shame! Shame on Uncle José!" teased the tots. Slowly the marksman grew livid, lowered his rifle until it pointed to the nearest of his teasers, squeezed trigger, put bullet into brain. As the other children scattered, screaming, poor José knew no better than to chase and shoot them down one by one. With his last shot he wounded a peasant who had rushed up brandishing an axe. As the man, for whom he had often worked for nothing, fell, Poor José seized his axe and split his head in twain...