Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capone is white; so is 'Machine Gun' Kelly; so are Hitler and Mussolini, public enemies number one of civilization and humanity. In fact all the notorious and world renowned crooks whom I know are white...
...Schuch held up a South Side bank last fortnight, using a curling iron and two vials of water as a "gun" and "nitroglycerine...
Last week Mr. Elliott fired a gun big enough to be heard by Franklin Roosevelt. He announced his decision to veto $3,050,000 in loans promised by Farm Security Administration to five cooperatives of Southern subsistence homesteaders to build factories to manufacture silk hosiery on contract for Dexdale Hosiery Mills of Lansdale, Pa. His explanation...
...sketches, priced at $7.50, which he peddled himself. Booksellers took one look-an unknown publisher, an unknown author, an unheard-of price!-and wrote him off as crazy. Publisher Connett, a serene glitter in his eye, was not crazy at all. For men who paid $500 for a gun, $75 for a fishing rod, $250 for a dog, $1,500 for a horse, said he, Derrydale prices were chicken feed. He was right. Derrydale books sold just as well at $25, $50, $125. Last year Connett sold 44 copies of a book on salmon fishing for $250 each. Even Derrydale...
...most serious problem is getting his sharpshooting authors to write at all. So urgent is Publisher Connett's search for new authors that he has cut down his own hunting and fishing to two days a week, has resigned from all but three rod & gun clubs, one yacht club...