Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoot the bridegroom after a shot gun wedding...
Normally the opening of London's Royal Academy show in venerable Burlington House is the opening gun of London's social season, one of the great events of the year. But not in Coronation Year. The 169th Royal Academy exhibition has been officially open for a month, yet not until last week did attendance figures begin to approach normal. Having shaken the Coronation confetti out of their hair, the public trooped in to see what, after sitting for .weeks in solemn judgment, the Academy's hanging committee had chosen...
...Public School Murder was the name of a book which youthful Headmaster Elliott Speer loaned in 1934 to Dean Thomas Edwin Elder of the Mount Hermon School for Boys at Northfield, Mass. In the story, the victim was killed by a prowler who fired a gun through a window...
...quest. Mysterious it was too that Mr. Speer's two big dogs had not barked, as they presumably would have if an un known intruder had made his way through the school's heavily wooded grounds. Because the villain of The Public School Murder had dropped his gun into a pond, the pond on the Mount Hermon grounds was drained, in vain. After ten days the inquest adjourned leaving Dr. Speer's death the greatest school murder mystery of the generation. Five months later Dean Elder resigned from Mount Hermon, went to raise poultry on his farm...
...exemplified by his manager, Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson). Nicknamed Kid Galahad when, as an unsophisticated bellhop, he knocks out the heavyweight champion of the world for insulting Nick's mistress, Fluff (Bette Davis), at a hotel orgy, Ward finds himself plunged into a melange of chicanery, gun feuds and undercover romance. Grooming Ward for the championship is for Nick subsidiary to his main purpose of revenging himself on the champion's manager, a gunman named Turkey Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). The likelihood that Ward will enable him to accomplish this by repeating his hotel-room knockout is endangered...