Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his 54 years of life, Author Hearn seldom lacked inspiration of one sort or another: he managed to quarrel with just about everybody he met, for long periods slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow. Born in the Ionian Islands in 1850 of mixed Anglo-Irish and Maltese stock, he emigrated to the U.S. at 19, slept in Manhattan doorways and vacant lots, finally went West to Cincinnati in 1871 and got a job on the Enquirer. Color-conscious Cincinnati readers liked his lush accounts of the seamier side of Queen City life, but were rocked...
After the Bonner family has been thoroughly disrupted by the trial which Mrs. Bonner wins, Mr. Bonner resorts to such dubious measures as pulling a chocolate pistol on his wife, and later bursting into tears...
...charge was dismissed. In 1912, when he was 21, he was arrested for robbing a woman of $1,600 on the street and again the charge was dropped. But in 1915, Gunman Francesco Castiglia, alias Frank Saverio, alias Frank Stello, was jailed and convicted of illegal possession of a pistol...
...court records describe the dark little drama-how the defendant ran from two suspicious policemen and threw his pistol into a lot, how he was caught, dragged back, and how the weapon was found. They tell of his pleas for mercy, made at first in Italian through a court interpreter, and finally in English, and they repeat the words of a forgotten judge...
...When Molotov visited the White House, "one of the valets was quite astounded ... to find inside [his suitcase] a large chunk of black bread, a roll of sausage and a pistol...