Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When he gets through a trap door in his own attic, with British soldiers at his heels and others coming up the stairs, the household is assembled for a wake for little Mollser Gogan, dead of consumption. Quick-witted Nora saves her husband's life by hiding his gun in Mollser's coffin. When the British soldiers break in a moment later, Jack is squatting beside it, playing cards with his cronies...
...First stop was in Jennings, La., where he boarded at Mrs. Inez Daugherty's Ardennes Hotel, labored with a "roughneck" gang in Humble's Roanoke field. From Louisiana he went to Texas again, did all manner of tasks, became a deputy sheriff so he could carry a gun. was arrested for speeding only twice...
Prowler In North Andover, Mass., awakened by noises at his bedroom window, Salvatore Lamonica, 80, grabbed his gun, fired two shots in the dark at a prowler. Next morning he found his son Paul dead beneath the window...
...most spectacular pictures are those of the agents at machine gun practice, riddling targets with 600 rounds a minute, firing out of speeding cars, and at night lighting up the range with tracer bullets. A sedan disintegrates before your eyes under a few seconds of concentrated shooting from a squad. Emphasis, however, is placed on the scientific angles of crime detection, the long rooms of cross-indexed fingerprints and nicknames, the rows of white coated technicians and microscopes and test tubes. When it had to decide which knife had cut through a copper screen, the F.B.I. placed filings from...
...getting so you can't tell a cattleman from a businessman." Only half the cattlemen sported high-heel boots and ten-gallon hats. None tucked in his pants. Sheep raisers and cattlemen, who traditionally loathe one another, shared tables in the Juarez cabarets. The only six-gun to be seen in El Paso last week was on a slick young ticket-taker at the Ellanay Theatre where Gary Cooper was playing in The Plainsman...