Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despite the vagaries of varied mood mottled memoirs of the arts, poetry, after all, is poetry. And Gerald, though an excellent gunman and a fairly creditable crook, has yet to write poetry. Indeed his muse is not sufficiently--to use his own words--distillate. In fact one might even believe murder detrimental to that divine something which breeds noble rime. But then again there is Francois Villon. Modernity lacks savoir faire even the rogues are prosaic...
...same day that General H. L. Rogers met his demise. Someone on the Times payroll merely failed to distinguish between two individuals. What was the difference? They were both named Rogers. . . . He put the General's "head" on the criminal's cleverness-wrote the history of a gunman's escape under the epitaph of a famous soldier...
...feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like John Selman, who resented any one else killing men in "his" town. Author White's complex is similar: let no one else tell the story of "his" El Paso. It is a reasonable demand and nothing tame rewards its granting. He averages about two corpses a paragraph...
That night Que Yee, a Hip Sing, was met by three pellets of steel as he walked upstairs in his house. He rolled to the bottom and died. Wong Hong, a young Hip Sing gunman, was entering his lodging house. A hatchet came down on his head from behind and his brains were crushed. They found a revolver lashed inside his vest...
...murder of a tong chief, a gunman may receive as much as $10,000; for a pawn or coolie, not more than $500. At the end of a war, the better shots are often rich men. Last week, obedient to the messages from Boston, they began business in a number of cities...