Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lynching scene were insufficient drama for one evening. Playwright Theodore St. John sends his rural mobsters back to Adams' place a second time. They now want to settle with the city fellow for making up to Adams' wife. But stout Farmer Adams gets out his gun, settles his own particular triangle in his own particular way. Constructed and executed with sympathy and clarity, Adams' Wife is a play for you to see if you are interested in serious drama of the U. S. rural scene. Experience Unnecessary. It was the practice of Mr. Cameron (Walter Woolf...
...late Congressman, editor and diplomat, Lloyd Stephens Bryce, auburn-haired Cornelia Pinchot is a consummate politician. Bluntspoken, quick-witted, shrewd, she is quite the peer of her husband on the stump. Outdoorish in her interests, she has landscaped the Pinchot estate, holds a permit to carry a gun (kidnapping threats have been made against her only son, Gifford Jr., 16), goes exploring in khaki shorts. In 1928 she ran against Congressman McFadden, lost the Republican nomination by 2,000 votes. This year she counts on his misbehavior in the House to help bring her victory. Her intelligence and capability would...
...Hiram Percy Maxim has been manufacturing noise mufflers at Hartford, Conn. Last week he announced that his Maxim Silencer Co., of which he is president and his only son Hiram Hamilton is chief engineer and whose factory is in Asylum Street, Hartford, will-besides continuing to make silencers for guns, motor exhausts, safety valves, air releases, in fact every kind of pipe which emits a gas-offer a consulting service in noise abatement. Chief abater will be "Dr. Shush," the Maxim trademark character, who looks like a caricature of Hiram Percy Maxim's uncle, the late explosive-making Hudson...
...tearing a door from the barn, tossing it around, while Owners O'Grady & Gray telephoned for police. Ten police sharpshooters went to the scene, hesitated to shoot because of the crowd. Amateur marksmen had to be restrained. Mayor George Baker forbade an execution, but ordered a machine gun squad to stand guard while steel cables were fashioned into nooses. Hay was spread over the nooses, the cable ends fastened to trucks. Tusko reached for the hay, the trucks pulled the nooses tight around him. Police remained on guard while Mayor Baker called his council to decide whether to build...
...more honest but less versatile than himself. But he is an over-confident confidence man. His one act of outright burglary-the theft of the diamond bracelet-finally has bad consequences. Detectives corner him in his rooms, chase him down a street in automobiles, shoot him with a machine gun. He is last seen in jail, making sentimental overtures to his blonde partner (Joan Blondell...