Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, the statesmen did not wait for the gun. Hardly had they shaken hands with their favorite concierges before they were padding about the corridors, lobbying in each other's bedrooms...
...carrier at a pick-up point, and the closing and locking of that door from the inside by the driver. At that precise moment, after the U. S. Trucking Corp.'s car had halted close to the Rubel platform, the man in the white apron whipped out a submachine gun from beneath the sacks on his pushcart. Instantly he was surrounded by numerous allies, some of whom had just drawn up in three automobiles. Others, like the natty dresser and the inexpert huckster, emerged from the crowd that had loitered about the plant during the morning. Like a crack football...
...Vincent Gebardi, her blonde hair braided and wrapped around her head halo-fashion, teed off at Chicago's Lincoln Park in the first round of the Illinois Women's Public Parks golf tournament. In wider Chicago circles Mrs. Gebardi is known as "The Blonde Alibi," and wife of "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, Public Enemy No. 4. Gangster Vincent Gebardi (alias "Jack McGurn") was suspected of participating in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Pretty Louise Rolfe, just out of high school, took the witness stand at his trial, swore that he had been with her in a hotel...
...More than one-third of Nickel's nickel is used to toughen steel, 20% going indirectly into automobiles alone. But a 10,000-ton cruiser needs about 50 tons of nickel, a French 75-mm. field gun about...
...three-quarters of a mile, where another horse from the Sloane stable would be broken in ahead for Cavalcade to pass. If the fresh horse showed signs of outrunning Cavalcade in the workout, he was held back to permit Cavalcade to gain confidence by winning. Cavalcade never jumps the gun at the start of a race, has good manners in the paddock, usually walks to the post with an old bay pony named Dave. He races in size 6 shoes?steel for hard tracks, aluminum for soft ones...