Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method is to take a news item, carry it pictorially to a ludicrous conclusion. A fortnight ago, he came upon "Chicago offers prize for poster boosting its World's Fair in 1933," as his news item. His cartoon in the form of a poster, showed a dog-faced gunman leaning on a World's Fair building which was labeled "100% American-Thompson Hall."* The smoke of the gunman's gun spelled: CHICAGO WELCOMES YOU! Other gangsters, disguised as fountains, were at play. In the background, the British Empire Exhibits were burning down...
...RACKET?Chicago on a particularly restless evening when a gunman shoots a cop (TiME...
...Shadow of a Gunman was O'Casey's first play; The Plough and the Star, his third...
Chicago newsgatherers hurried out one day last week to interview Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, gunman. They found him arrayed in hunting clothes at his hotel. Mr. Capone had not been hunting humans, though that is his reputation. He had just returned from a pleasure trip in the "north woods" where he had been shooting bears, deer, rabbits. He was holding a press reception to announce that he was going South for the winter. The Capone interview commanded large headlines. Mr. Capone's fame rests upon the fact that whenever- as so often happens-a Chicago thoroughfare is raked & riddled...
...regency. So Bull "bumps him off," precipitating a police investigation and machine-gun play. These scenes roll off the film with a lusty realism that makes it all the more regrettable that the producers should have seen fit to resort to the invariable Hollywood alchemy of turning even the gunman's heart to gold. While in the death house, Bull is disturbed by only one loathsome thought. Suppose his sweetheart, Feathers (Evelyn Brent), and his regenerate drunkard protege, Rolls Royce (Clive Brook), had been the means of double-crossing him into the cuffs of the police? One hour before...