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Word: gunness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ladies in the snout, and telescopes their jaws as the occasion requires; he enters the picture as a tough usher, graduates to the jewel thief class, kicks up a jump to a movie star's berth, and finishes the whirlwind by aiding the police in a running machine-gun duel with the old gang, in the course of which the old gang is almost totally exterminated. Naturally, that Cagney trademark, rough treatment of the squooshy sex, is not neglected. In a scene which will feed the starved souls of Back Bay mocha-moochers, Jimmy drags a hopped-up moll across...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...Thirty-two years ago Texas Deputy Robert S. Weisiger pulled his gun, killed Spot North, a Negro who resisted arrest. For 32 years nothing happened. Last week Sheriff Weisiger asked a Texas court to indict him for the shooting-so he could be legally vindicated. No witness of the incident was still alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Special Delivery | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

Holding most of Cuba's guns, little Generalissimo Fulgencio Batista last week went President-making. So unimpressed was this quarter white, quarter black, quarter Chinese, quarter Indian by the politicos' choice early last week of Carlos Hevia y Reyes Gavilan that he cut off Cabana Fortress' 21-gun salute to the New President at the count of nine. Gently he began to move his troops into Havana, to police stations, doorways, roofs. His chief opponent, ex-President Grau's ubiquitous Secretary of War, Navy and Interior Antonio Guiteras, a onetime pharmacist who had somehow got Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Nine Guns and Out | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...What notorious Southwestern outlaw has a girl who smokes cigars, carries a gun, goes by the name of Suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz, Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...this point, Don Comfort, bulky Crimson guard, found the hoop three times in a row from half way out, and followed up with a foul shot. After another gratis shot scored by Gene Merry, B. U. was frightened into freezing the ball, which they did successfully until the final gun. The Freshman cagers defeated Andover 29-14 Saturday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building. At the conclusion of the game Leavitt White of Plainfield, New Jersey, was elected captain of the 1937 squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cagers Drop Close Contest To Boston University, 42-36 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

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