Word: wesson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...penned Ilya Ehrenburg, had toured the land of cotton in search of sensation. But Sprigle had "crossed over" to see it through the Negro's eyes. Last week, in his own paper and 13 others (none of them south of what he had learned to call the "Smith & Wesson" line), Sprigle began telling what he saw "In the Land of Jim Crow." As an account of man's inhumanity to man-and man's capacity for enduring it-his series made Gentleman's Agreement seem gentlemanly indeed...
...help, 50 U.N. employees from Lake Success signed up to go to Palestine. Some were guards, others were stockroom clerks or statisticians or employees in the U.N. movie unit. Among the gear hastily issued them before they took off from La Guardia Field for Palestine were .35-caliber Smith & Wesson revolvers, without ammunition. If Bernadotte chose to issue them bullets, the little band in white caps and grey uniforms would become U.N.'s first armed force...
...familiar company like Wesson Oil, which had earned a reassuring $23.15 a share, was selling at week's end at 43!, which was less than twice earnings...
...years he has been in Chile, during which time he has written criticism for Santiago's La Hora and Ultima Hora, he has been set upon 14 times by irate readers who objected to his acid words. The only man ever wounded by his Smith & Wesson was Goldschmidt; he shot himself in the hand while cleaning it. Usually it has been a beefy baritone or basso who socked him, although a tenor once tried to strangle him. Last week a woman beat him to the punch...
Soon his men were synchronizing cowbells chromatically arranged like a xylophone; a klaxon, a popgun, a saw, a fire-bell, an octave of Flit guns (tuned to the key of E flat), two octaves of tuned doorbells, an auto pump, a car motor, a Smith & Wesson .22 pistol. His ten players-nine men and a girl harpist-are proficient at making every conceivable noise capable of emerging from a human larynx...