Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strolling leisurely along his beat on Buffalo Street in Warsaw, Ind. one night last week when he noticed two men coming across the street toward him, casting long shadows under the lights. Patrolman Pittenger saw that they carried machineguns. One of the men poked the barrel of his gun in Patrolman Pittenger's belly. When Pittenger tried to push it away, the other man stuck the stock of his gun into the policeman's back...
They led Pittenger down an alley. The first man said, "You're the biggest damned fool I ever saw." The other man pulled Pittenger's gun out of its holster, hanging from a Sam Browne belt. He rapped Pittenger three times over the head with it. Then they took Pittenger to the police station, on the second floor over the town offices. The men broke open a door and took four bullet-proof vests and two revolvers. Pittenger saw they were not looking at him. He ran down the steps, falling once and wrenching his knee. Then...
...arrives and quickly assembles the equipment called for by the situation-a bag of unpopped corn and a frying pan. He warms the corn and pours it into the rear of the Wolfs baggy trousers. The Wolf, convinced that he is being peppered from the rear by a machine gun, scuttles off. The two frivolous piglets arrive in time to join the celebration at Grandma's cottage. The prudent pig pumps the organ for their dance. Major flaw of The Big Bad Wolf is not that it wildly distorts a well known nursery story. This is Disney license...
...DEATH SHIP - B. Traven - Knopf ($2.50). Yarn of a U. S. sailor on a gun runner; hard-boiled but a little overripe...
...handle or stock of the gun, in the shape of the handle of a crutch has been taken and suspicion has been directed both against the anti-war and the pro-war factions. This gun was originally a part of the armament of the cruiser "Harvard" during the World War. With the loss of its handle, the gun apparently lost its pride, for it has begun to droop dejectedly...