Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rage and pain, a rhinoceroes turned and charged at the second son of King George, York reserved his fire. Nearer and nearer the enraged animal came, its head lowered, its two white horns gleaming their deadly significance. Nearer and nearer, 50 yards, 40 yards, 30 yards-crack! a bullet sped from York's rifle ... a perissodactyl monster lay dead...
...next scene found Anna dead, a bullet hole in her head, and the Vice Consul mortally wounded, three bullets having passed through his neck. Police removed him to the hospital where he later died...
Then Dr. Seipel appeared to give evidence. In his breast was the bullet which Jaworek fired; in his soul was misericordia Domini. In the space of four minutes, this ascetic, pale and nervous priest said that his illness following the attack was in part owing to diabetes and that he felt for the prisoner "in a spirit of forgiveness." Jaworek sobbed. The jury found him guilty; the judge, taking into consideration his mental inferiority, sentenced him to three and a half years hard labor; and he was ordered to fast one day in every quarter...
Selden states that the hold-up man fired directly at him from a distance of about three feet. He also states that the cartridge was a blank, for no bullet struck him or any part of the building. From this and his nervous actions Selden believes that the man was inexporienced in the hold-up game...
Samuel Colt, an uncle, was the inventor of the revolving bullet chamber. Ethel Barrymore, actress, married and divorced Russell Griswold Colt, a nephew...