Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of the second period, at Corvallis last week, Oregon was leading 21 to 20. Two minutes before the game ended, Oregon State, trying desperately to catch up, had slipped farther behind, 26 to 23. Red MacDonald. State guard, holed a long basket, but 20 sec. before the final gun Oregon was still a point ahead. Stevens, Oregon guard, fouled MacDonald; MacDonald sank the penalty shot to tie the score, gave Oregon State the chance it needed to win, 32 to 27, in the extra period...
Wearing only one pistol, a big black .45, Two-Gun Tang alighted from his pony, served tea, faced questions...
Later, after Kailu and Chaoyang had fallen, correspondents were summoned to the former Imperial Manchu Summer Palace at Chengteh, found Two-Gun Tang seated on a 200-year-old Ceremonial Throne. "The Japanese can have this province," cried Tang passionately, "when all the Chinese are dead! . . . Manchukuo is nothing but a big fake. No Chinese yet has voluntarily joined the Japanese. Even Pu Yi [in his childhood the last Emperor of China, today Regent of Manchukuo] would get out of his present job if he could...
Acting on a tip, police raided the Havana Y. M. C. A., nabbed several Young Christians in possession of a German submachine gun, three sawed-off shotguns, five rifles, a case of ammunition...
Hangman's Whip (by Norman Reilly Raine & Frank Butler; William A. Brady Jr., producer). "The fear o' hell," wrote Bobby Burns, "is a hangman's whip." For 30 years, with whip and gun, Cockney Trader Prin (portly Montague Love, who muscles people around with his stomach) has put the fear o' hell into the natives living far up an African river. He has also broken most of the white assistants that have served under him for, as he says, "I ain't run this river plying tiddly-winks." But two of his helpers he does...