Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prisoner's with condign punishment. I hope the sentence will have some effect in deterring others from carrying loaded revolvers when pursuing their vocation of burglary." (London bobbies, pursuing their vocations, do not ordinarily carry firearms.) Gouty peers, ruffling through the London Evening Standard learned last week that: "Gunmen have struck terror into the hearts of inhabitants of the big American cities . . . their police are helpless." Finally, at the other end of the social scale, the Daily Herald, organ of reigning British Labor, explained Legs and his like wholly in terms of Prohibition. "Bad laws may breed lawlessness," said...
...Scowman Leonardo San Martino. He told Sanitation Commissioner Charles Hand that his barge was boarded by about 40 buccaneers from The Row, who deposited their contraband, threatened him and his crew with death if there was betrayal. At the E's dock, he said, another band of gunmen made the crew wait all afternoon & evening, finally help unload the liquor...
Good Intentions (Fox). This preposterous fable about gunmen in silk hats is good entertainment, although the characters, including Edmund Lowe as the gunmau chief, are stencils. The story is the one about the society Robin Hood who falls in love with a nice girl and keeps appointments with her between bank robberies. Few will accept as verity the huge town mansion of the young and naif hoodlum, or his devoted butler, or the robbery of the bank whose president is kidnaped at church by gunmen dressed like ushers, or Lowe's stubborn march upstairs to death in a dark room...
...Antwerp these seven super-gunmen must first fire 120 shots apiece in a three-day Small Bore (.22 calibre) Competition, then another 120 shots apiece in the main event (three days more). In their baggage last week were ten of the finest rifles ever produced by the Springfield Armory, specially stocked to individual measures, and 5,000 rounds of special ammunition designed by ballistic experts of the Ordnance branch of the Army. Said Team Captain Boles...
...Soon released, Zuta was being given "safe conduct" through the loop district in a detective lieutenant's car, when three men opened fire on him. A street car motorman was killed. While the detective fought it out with the assailants, Zuta fled, unhurt, to hide from police and gunmen alike...