Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simultaneous with Shaffer shooting, G-men had jumped Brady who was sitting in the back seat of his car. He was told to come but with his hands up. On getting out he suddenly pulled a gun and started firing. . . . He was trying to take his stand in the middle of the road when several bursts from machine guns lifted him off his feet and threw him to the pavement, dead...
...push" was accompanied by the bursting for the first time of stray Japanese shells in such fashion as to kill four British Tommies and wound six more by this week. Tommies had held their fire while General Telfer-Smollet flung himself flat and escaped a round of Japanese machine gun bullets fired at fleeting Chinese, but foreign tempers in Shanghai were so short that even U. S. Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell gave orders that U. S. forces in Shanghai, if attacked, were to fight back...
...claimed to have found in the captured Alamo quantities of "fresh food which could only have been smuggled in from the British." Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa this week was so boiling mad on his flagship at Shanghai that when a British soldier was reported to have touched a machine gun on a Japanese river launch, the Admiral reported to his Emperor: "The Japanese Navy has been insulted...
Hollywood police received an alarm that Cinemactor Victor McLaglen had been kidnapped at the point of a gun in front of a filling station. The sheriff's office presently set the police right: the "kidnappers"' were deputy sheriffs, their victim Victor's brother Capt, Sidney Leopold McLaglen, 48, accused of having attempted to extort $20,000 from Millionaire-Sportsman-Photographer Phillip Mattiessen Chancellor...
...Louis bowling alley and developed his sturdy legs by training for one of C. C. Pyle's "bunion derbies," is that he belongs to Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Singer Jolson whose great heart is a Broadway legend, bought his contract last year for $6,000 from a gun-toting promoter named Wirt ("One Shot") Ross, turned him over to be managed by his friend Eddie Meade...