Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gun banged, Cunningham sped out in front of the quartet. By the first quarter they were dogging each other in Indian file. At the half they spread in echelon, Cunningham in the lead. A slow third quarter saw Venzke trailing and by the time the gun rang out for the last lap it looked as if the long office hours in a Manhattan accounting firm were going to put Bonthron out of the race. Then things began to happen. Sailing down the home stretch with his mincing gait, Jack Lovelock stepped a full eight yards out in front of Cunningham...
...superior reveals that the jail break he engineered was really a trick to gain the confidence of the leader (Joseph Calleia) of the Purple Gang, who escaped at the same time. From that point on, the story follows the accepted G-Man course: a hunt, punctuated by machine-gun fire and climaxed by the villain's death, this time in a theatre. It even includes two other familiar episodes culled from the Dillinger saga, the siege in a roadhouse and plastic surgery for purposes of disguise. These details. however, for cinemaddicts who find the current school of underworld melodrama...
...winter of 1930, Manhattan police arrested four young men for stealing $59 from an Amsterdam Avenue grocery store. Three of them received short jail terms The fourth, one Edwin Collins Pitts of Opelika, Ala., had carried a gun. For his first robbery he was sentenced to from eight to 16 years in Sing Sing. Convict Pitts, as "Alabama" Pitts, became a star player on the prison's baseball and football teams. News stories about Sing Sing's games against local teams of semi" professionals, firemen and police made him a U. S. sports celebrity. Last week his term...
...presidents and their womenfolk went to the races at Montevideo's Hippodrome. The jockey club president invited them upstairs to the buffet for a glass of Yerba Maté. At the head of the stairs they were met by onetime Nationalist Deputy Bernardo Garcia. He pulled out a gun. Somebody jostled his arm. A shot plunked into President Terra's shoulder. The crowd knocked down visiting President Vargas; his daughter fainted; an officer slashed the assassin over the head with a sabre. President Terra, followed by his guests, walked pleasantly out to his car, shouted, "They failed...
...Bureau of Construction and Repair from 1903 to 1910; of heart disease; in Washington. On Admiral Dewey's staff during the Spanish-American War, he supervised raising and repairing Spanish vessels captured in the battle of Manila Bay. As Chief Constructor he evolved the all-big-gun ship, the skeleton mast which became a distinctive feature of U. S. warcraft...