Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government knows of a body of men engaged in drilling, calling themselves the Irish Republican Army, who are determined to establish by means of gun rule a small minority over the great majority...
...girls at gunpoint to drive up a lonely road. There he robbed them. Not satisfied with that, he began insulting the frightened young women, threatened "to get even for what their race had done to his.'' At this point, Nell Williams made a grab for the gun. The Negro shot her in the arm. He shot her sister in the stomach, and another slug tore into Miss Wood's spine. With her friends stretched groaning in the woods, Nell Williams jumped in the car and made for the nearest house, three miles away...
Police approached the building and attempted to search it on a report that quantities of arms and munitions were hidden there. Its embattled proprietor refused and opened fire. A machine gun squad came out from town on the run. At the end of an hour firing ceased. Police rushed the doors and found inside only the bodies of two dead men, the caretaker and the proprietor. In the cellar was an arsenal of rifles, revolvers, hand grenades, shotguns...
...plot to murder them. Implicated in the scheme is the household chauffeur (Clark Gable) who cuffs the nurse on the jaw when she disobeys his orders. When the hero of the picture, the 'legger whom she befriended (Ben Lyon), enters the children's sickroom and points a gun at the chauffeur, audiences are likely to show a reaction which is rarely provoked in the cinema without the aid of cowboys, ropes, revolvers and Dirty Pete, the cattle rustler -to clap hands loudly and chuckle with relief. Well photographed, directed and acted, Night Nurse achieves a higher plane...
William MacLeod Raine's Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws gives you the two-gun period. Leroy Hafen's Broken Hand, a story of the famous fur trader and Indian agent Fitzpatrick, gives the code of the mountain...