Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh was the State's third witness. When he took the witness chair, reporters' eyes popped wide with amazement to see that the aviator was wearing a revolver in a shoulder holster under his loose-fitting coat. Oldtime newshawks recalled that the flyer had been carrying a gun for five years, ever since cranks began sending him threatening letters...
Highly annoyed by North Western's new train last week was Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. R. Milwaukee officials claimed North Western had "jumped the gun" on a gentlemen's agreement between the Milwaukee, Burlington and North Western to institute high-speed schedules simultaneously next March. Caught napping, the Milwaukee Road quickly inaugurated mile-a-minute service between Chicago and Milwaukee (85 mi.), pushed delivery of two streamlined engines for its Chicago-Twin Cities route. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. quietly announced that it would put two Zephyrs on the Twin Cities run within 60 days, knock...
...young Walter Lohmann in his first Manhattan appearance, fell off his bicycle and broke his collarbone less than an hour after Jack Dempsey had fired the starting gun. Temperamental little Alfred Letourner, furious with his onetime teammate, harassed Marcel Guimbretiere mercilessly until that rider withdrew, 15 laps behind. For periodic sprints, spectators offered, instead of the customary $25, miscellaneous premiums: a dozen lobsters, a dinner with champagne, a set of tires, a red rose, a return bus ticket to Buffalo...
...side road. The Federal car screeched and skidded about 100 ft. down the highway before Agent Hollis could bring it to a stop. By that time Nelson's woman had leaped out into a ditch. Screened by their engine hood, Nelson and his male companion were pumping machine gun bullets at the Federal men. From behind their own automobile the agents opened fire, Cowley with a machine gun, Hollis with an automatic shotgun. Each one had emptied his gun before he fell, riddled with bullets. The outlaws ceased firing. One of them, shot in the legs, was limping badly. Their...
...That time never came for Harmey B Hill. Next day at dusk his body was found in his sedan on a roadside three miles from his home town. In his head was one bullet, in his hand a gun with one shot fired. But through the car's windows were also five bullet holes...