Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters with stockings pulled over their faces. "This is a nice way to enter a person's home," Sayde observed. She was understating it. One of the men clubbed her on the head and face with the flat of a gun. "Where's the big ring?" the gunman wanted to know. She said the store...
This spring his house was bombed while he was away. Last week, as Lyuh's car drove down a street near his home, a young gunman fired three shots. Two of them found their mark. A police lieutenant rushed out to capture the assassin, grappled with Lyuh's bodyguard instead. The murderer got away. Two hours later, in a Seoul hospital, Death, as it must to all men, came to Lyuh Woon Heung...
Twenty years ago Duke Ellington rode into the big time on a gunman's rod. A Philadelphia theater had him under contract but that didn't stop the burly boys sent by Harlem's Cotton Club which wanted him for their new show. One of them told the Philadelphia manager: "Be big or you'll be dead." The quaking manager gave up Ellington. The Duke and his jittery band arrived at the Cotton Club a few minutes before opening time...
Considering retirement in 1937, Ruth divorced her husband, a onetime Chicago gunman named "Moe" Snyder, known more popularly to tabloid readers as "The Gimp." The next year, The Gimp crashed her Hollywood home and shot up Ruth's pianist, Myrl Alderman. The Gimp went to jail for a year. Ruth eloped with Alderman and retired to a Colorado ranch...
Signal. In Los Angeles, Barbara Brod put a hand out of her car window to signal a left turn, attracted the attention of a gunman who jumped on the running board and relieved her of a $3,000 diamond ring...