Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...storms, such hazards. Died. Laura Opper, painter of portraits and benefactor of painters; in Manhattan. Her work has been hung in numerous galleries abroad and in the U. S. In 1893, she established one of the first "neighborhood houses"-in Allen Street, Manhattan. Died. Dutch Louie, 26, famed yegg, gunman; in Cherry Hill, Manhattan. His shooting recalled that of his alleged brother, Charles ("Potatoes") Casazza, in the saloon of Louis Poggi, known as "Louis the Lump," and the killing of "Kid Twist" and his lieutenant by Poggi at Coney Island twelve years...
...smallest Republic in the world, governed by young people between the ages of 16 and 21 from all classes and conditions of society. We'd just as soon take a gunman as a Boy Scout, believing as we do, that one or two years of life in the Republic will create an improvement which will make for good citizenship...
...previously. Broke like the rest of Texas, Taisie was at her wits' end. Her cow hands were faithful, but she couldn't carry on forever with no money to pay them. Enter the mysterious Dan McMasters, sheriff of Gonzales, son of Burleson Lockhart's best friend and a two-gunman. He brings news of a market "north of 36" ?the railroad has come to Abilene? the East is crying for cattle. Wealth lies waiting for any Texan who dares drive a herd some fifteen hundred miles through a country practically unmapped?savage as a rattlesnake. "Let's go!" said...
...knowing what she wants and being unhappy until she gets it. The last two days have seen one of the stormiest sessions of the Dail Eireann so far--a perfect maze of charges and counter charges from Griffith and De Valera intermixed with epithets of "liar" and "gunman", until both sides finally agreed to publish the documents of the London conference,--"before the elections so that no one is fooled" as De Valera expressed...