Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood a neat, dark man in a pinstriped, blue-green suit. The man was silently and carefully aiming a German P-38 automatic pistol at him. It went off-just as Birdzell jumped, clawing for his own revolver. The guard bolted instinctively for the street-partly to draw the gunman's fire away from the President's quarters, partly to leave a clear field for the Tommy gunner behind the door. Then hell's own corn popper began to grind in front of Blair-Lee House...
Letter of the Law. In Colorado Springs, a youthful gunman tried to hold up the Royal Liquor Store, fled empty-handed when the proprietor reminded him that, according to state law, he was too young to enter a liquor store...
Italy's No. 1 Red Palmiro Togliatti, who barely escaped death in 1948 when a Sicilian gunman pumped three bullets into him, was severely injured when the driver of his fast-moving grey Aprilia sedan swerved to avoid a fruit truck, crashed into an embankment and overturned twice...
...flighty society heiress (Helena Carter) into eloping with him and, at her father's urging, plans to take charge of her $30 million. In a jealous swivet, the moll begins throwing things like coffee pots and Jeroboams of champagne, finally throws a couple of slugs into her wayward gunman. Long before that point, enough brutality, bravado and dime-novel sex have been ladled into the killer-hero's life to keep this potboiler simmering merrily along...
Thus, in 1934, spoke a gunman sentenced to ten years in San Quentin for a shooting. He was talking a venerable underworld cant rooted 400 years deep in Anglo-American history. Britain's Eric Partridge, a lexicographer who has strayed off the fairways of the English language to rummage in the rough (A Dictionary of Slang, Shakespeare's Bawdy), shows in his massive new Dictionary of the Underworld that even in 18th Century London a beak was a magistrate, a college was a prison, and to frisk was to search. But U.S. criminals, no mere copycats, have made...