Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tenth Avenue. Before the World War broke them up, the Hudson Dusters were a well-knit gang of gunmen and thieves who infested the west front of Manhattan, near Tenth Avenue. Such devilry was constantly sizzling and boiling up here, that the neighborhood became known as "Hell's Kitchen." In this lurid milieu, Playwrights John McGowan and Lloyd Griscom elected to set their play, although, as subsequently developed, they might as logically have fixed upon the Bronx...
...year-old man robed in the habit of Our Lady of Carmel. His expression was serene. The pallid hands enfolded a crucifix resting upon his breast. This was Kevin Christopher O'Higgins, in life Vice President and Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. Three undetected gunmen had murdered him from their automobile (TIME, July 18); and last week Free State citizens seemed even more grief-stricken than after the murder in 1922 of the first provisional head of the Irish Free State, Michael Collins...
Blind Alleys (Thomas Meighan). The bride is carried off by gunmen. The bridegroom, loath to part, pursues. There are reels of his bursting into rooms from which she has just burst...
...babies are not gainfully employed. Neither, statistically, are most gunmen, convicts, home girls, degenerates, street sheiks, housewives. These and all other gainlessly employed total 72,470,000-or just short of two-thirds of the U. S. population. They live either on coupon-clipped income or on their relatives or on the State...
...They are all closer to your office than Aiken. That we are civilized is best attested by the considerable number of America's best families who for more than 50 years have been spending their winter vacation in Aiken, stepping from the train and realizing how far removed from gunmen and gangsters, machine and sawed-off shotguns they are, they are glad...