Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last November, an airplane flew over and dropped some bombs which missed the house. Nobody was killed; it was only a minor disturbance. Last week "Shady Rest" trembled, burned, collapsed. It became a ruin overnight. And what is more, it contained four bodies, charred beyond recognition, full of ugly bullet holes...
...Author, a Christian, son of an old merchant family, a journalist and essayist of high and cosmopolitan reputation, received as his first royalty on The City Without Jews a bullet which killed him, fired in cold blood by a 20-year-old Nordic caller, who later said he was proud to have struck such a blow for Kultur...
...Fair Lawn, N. J., the chow dog of a Mrs. Robert Schurer, having bitten her before, fell upon her in the kitchen when she was alone, floored her, bit and worried her until she was unconscious, fled through the house when Mr. Schurer brought a policeman, expired of bullet-wounds in the coal...
Members of the Danville, Ill., Rotary clubassembled last week to behold a marvel. Awe was in every heart as a man stood among them, all unafraid, and bade an assistant fire revolver bullets at him point blank. "Blam! Blam-blam!" The Rotarians could scarcely believe their eyes as the bullets quite obviously smote their target and still he stood unhurt. The Rotarians drew closer . . . "Blam-blam!" . . . and soon three of them were writhing with pain. Baker Walter C. Spitz, Banker John Telling and Reporter H. V. Streeter suffered cuts, scratches and contusions as chunks of lead, ricocheting from the entertainer...
...uncommon thing for a knocked-down deer to do. A bullet clipping a deer at the base of the horns or just above the spine will often stun the animal for some time. Experienced deerslayers invariably sever their kill's jugular vein immediately upon reaching it, in the interests of safety, mercy, and to bleed the meat while it is still warm...