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Word: gunman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie's authentic toughness is supplied by its gangsters, notably Paul Stewart, playing a shrewd, efficient planner, and Jack Webb as an itchy-fingered gunman. The settings look at least as hard as the hoodlums: littered alleys, poolrooms, shabby hotels and stretches of industrial wasteland filmed on location in Gary, Ind., South Chicago and Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...another from a feebleminded 19-year-old named George Bilger. The obliging Bilger (who happily confessed a lot of other crimes, too) was promptly sent off to the penitentiary. But after three years, the cops had a new thought: the murder had been committed by a gunman named Jack Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black & Shameful Page | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...Proof. Sheeler vanished into the recesses of City Hall. A week later, he signed a confession: Gunman Howard had shot the policeman and he, Sheeler, had been a witness and accessory to the crime. He was sent to the penitentiary for life by the late Philadelphia Judge Harry S. McDevitt, who neatly disposed of the feebleminded Bilger by getting him transferred to a mental institution from which he conveniently escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black & Shameful Page | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Specialist. In Mobile, Ala., a gunman held up Mrs. Harold Matthews in her husband's grocery, took all her one-dollar bills, left the fives, tens, twenties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 2, 1951 | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Emergency Loan. In Long Beach, Calif., when the proprietor of a small grocery pleaded to the gunman holding him up that "We're poor, too," the gunman walked off with the day's take ($32), but promised, "I'll get a bigger haul than this and then I'll pay you back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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