Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Race. Two days later weather conditions were more favorable, with a fair southwest wind. The Committee boat's little flags announced the course: triangular, 10 mi. to windward, then 10 mi. southeast-by-east, then back to the starting point. Skipper Vanderbilt crossed the line neatly as the starting gun boomed, stepped out in front and to windward of Shamrock V, from which a ton of lead ballast had been removed. Strategically, Enterprise kept her advantage, tacking with Shamrock V, keeping her rival out of the wind and at a disadvantage as a hawk follows a pigeon. Unable to shake...
...late famed Missouri bandit, filed an $80,400 suit against Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky. Allegation: Paramount agreed to let the Jameses help them cinematize Bandit James's life, then backed out. Said Jessie: "They wanted me to get arrested for speeding, resist the officer, and draw a gun on him so they could broadcast the story Jesse James's granddaughter stuck up a policeman...
...through the hole with enough loot for six riotous months in the West. A year later, broke and back for more, he clung by a rope-ladder to the same train as it sped through the night towards Utica. This time he smashed a window, shot the guard's gun out of the guard's hand, kept him covered until the train got to Utica. There he boarded a locomotive and raced off down the track with another locomotive full of angry police in pursuit. Suddenly Perry reversed his engine, opened fire, pursued his pursuers until...
...revolution, at the Campo de Mayo barracks. By dawn their troops were on the march. Ahead of the columns flew battle planes, zooming and thundering over Buenos Aires, raining down leaflets. One plane dived low over Argentina's Casa Rosada ("Pink House"), peppering the Executive Mansion with machine gun bullets. Frantic crowds snatched the bulletins with joy, read an exhortation to "rise" signed "Military Junta." They rose...
...time among the four or five crack rifle shots in the entire country. When I was a child the house was filled with gold and silver medals as tokens of this prowess. And I, his son, am a fanatical pacifist and have never so much as fired a gun in my life...