Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time both have been chased by the same motorcycle policeman into refuge at the same Adirondack cabin, Nostrand thinks Millicent is a summons server, she thinks he is a gangster. It takes the arrival at the cabin of a shaggy local trapper (Slim Summerville), a real gangster, a machine-gun posse led by the local sheriff (John Qualen), a blizzard and a tame rabbit to relieve their misapprehensions...
...revolver, waved it admonishingly. The big police dog did what his master had taught him always to do when he saw an armed man. He catapulted with all four feet against the policeman's chest and belly. Down in a heap went man and dog. Bang went the gun, putting a bullet through Patrick Conroy's heart...
...signs of Italian valor on the battlefield of "little Caporetto" or Brihuega last week. "The scrub oak woods," cabled Journalist Hemingway, "are still full of Italian dead that burial squads have not yet reached. Tank tracks lead to where they died, not as cowards but defending skillfully constructed machine-gun and automatic-rifle positions, where the tanks found them and where they still lie. The track of a tropical hurricane leaves a capricious swath of complete destruction, but the two parallel grooves the tank leaves in the red mud lead to scenes of planned death worse than any hurricane leaves...
...guards behave a good deal like the amiable and manly V. M. I. officers and guards of Brother Rat (TIME, Dec. 28). But Frank Wilson (Charles Jordan) and Scappa (Maurice Burke) are nobody's angels. Frank has murdered a man in a stickup with a gun he got Johnny Stone (John Raby) to steal from his sister's sweetheart, a Holmes patrolman. Frank seems pretty smart to Johnny when he gets the two of them sent up for three years for a $10 robbery so they can hide out until the trouble blows over. But Johnny begins...
...motcur canon had other drawbacks. Being a single-loader, it was hard to handle a Spad, keep a weather eye around and keep the canon fed. The fuses were supersensitive, for balloon work, likely to explode if poked hastily into the gun in the excitement of a brawl. If the pilot was not to miss with his single shell, he had to climb practically aboard the enemy plane before firing. If the Spanish Loyalists insist on World War ordnance, they might be better pleased with the 11 mm. Vickers-AIaxim machine gun, which heaved incendiary slugs of impressive size...