Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to his old job and is preparing to marry a young lady of fashion. A ceremony equivalent to that of fitting the glass slipper is achieved when the bridegroom finds himself kidnapped at a fashionable wedding, rushed off to the racketeer's establishment for a machine-gun marriage to the girl he really loves...
...characters have come out of the Kentucky hills with a more impressive background for violence than George W. (for nothing) Barrett. Five years ago he killed his 73-year-old mother. After pinking his sister he gave her such a beating with a gun butt that she died six weeks later. At Manchester, Ky. in 1932 he participated in a five-hour gunfight which cost the lives of two kinsmen. Last summer this prodigal career reached its cli max when Barrett, pursued by a pair of G-men for violating the Federal motor vehicle theft law, shot and killed Agent...
...just after the Armistice, on the last convoyed ship to leave Manhattan. England's Black Country, faced with "the great calamity of peace"; Paris of the Peace Conference; Italy, with new ruins to add to its old; the meeting of the Second International at Berne; devastated Serbia, machine-gun fire in starving Vienna, Budapest under Bela Kun's Communist regime-all these she saw and reported. The one meeting she refused was an interview with Queen Marie of Rumania. Once more in the U. S., her active indignation sent her into the great steel strike of 1919, then...
...main air base of central France, near Lyon, plans for sky mobilization in case of war are kept in the colonel's safe. Last week Sergeant Keiffer of the night patrol drove off four strangers with gun fire, rushed into the colonel's office, found the safe drilled almost open and on the floor a kit of brand-new burglar tools...
...that many of the best appurtenances of detective stores have been lifted directly from Conan Doyle, to be used most effectively on the screen. There is the subtle trap inveigling the guilty man into betraying himself, the use of a dummy to draw fire from the villain's gun, the spiriting away of a threatened person under pretense of his death, and the complicated machine of destruction. In this picture the infernal device rivals the inventions of Rube Goldberg, for the ringing of a church bell--as innocent a phenomenon as you could hope to find--starts the train...