Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...butt. Fishing took its place, in a song that said, ". . . you must be an outdoor man like Calvin Coolidge." Uncle Sam was shown being shouldered off the front pages and into the funny papers by roaming royalty, the Hall-Mills case, Aimée Semple McPherson and a Chicago gunman. "How about another Bruce Barton interview with President Coolidge?" asked Uncle Sam. "Apply at the business office," said the editor, "for rates on political advertising...
Granted the possible weakness of American law forces; granted the success of those of England; not granted, however, that the American criminal--especially of the bandit gunman genre--is the average criminal. Perhaps even the Liverpool police would be some what disconcerted, if stationed, for instance, in Cicero, III. In Cicero men are not only men: they are gunmen. And similarly in other communities--in bloody Herrin, in Canton, and of course in the metropolitan centers. It would and it will when the time comes--take a better system than the present one to wipe out the invisible ring...
...group that day, men trained for just such moments. "Big Bill" Edwards acted quicker than any of them. Straight as a bullet he launched his enormous bulk forward in a flying tackle that had in it all that nerve and muscle remembered of wild times on ringing fields. The gunman, still firing, crumpled backward; powder burned the sleeve of "Big Bill" Edwards; a bullet seared his arm. For a while after that he was cheered wherever he went. And even now, at a football game, in the theatre, on the street, one man will nudge another...
...Paint (Raymond Griffith). In this picture plot has been taken quietly by the hand and pushed over a precipice. Mr. Griffith starts by making love to a gunman's wife, is surprised by the husband and terrified by his artillery. The rest of the picture is the old movies comedy-chase. Mr. Griffith drives a fire truck through heavily populated streets, invades a Turkish bath. These things are, as always, funny...
...pounds--Gunman (H) defeated Grimes (Y) by decision...