Word: gunning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...young farmer had been hanging around all day with a gun just itching for a chance to do some shooting. Well, he cut loose and began firing. I had covered up for the officers, but since I'm getting heck for it I may as well tell the rest of it. ... Three of them heard part of the broadcast and the shots while they were in a speakeasy and they came over. They joined in the shooting and gave us entirely too much atmosphere...
...bigger kidnapping news than Oklahoma City's came from Memphis where George R. ("Machine Gun'') Kelly fell into the hands of the police. Wanted in Oklahoma City for the Urschel kidnapping, wanted in Kansas City for murder, wanted in Chicago and St. Paul for robbery and murder, Kelly-a heavyset, black-haired ex-convict who got into crime via bootlegging and who boasts that he can write his name on a wall with machine gun bullets-had been eluding Federal authorities for more than three months. Thanks to an intercepted telegram and the story...
...Drop that gun, Kelly," said Sergeant Raney shoving his shotgun into Kelly's stomach. Kelly dropped the pistol...
Most of the 1.300 Republicans who packed into Chicago's Hamilton Club one afternoon last week to hear Indiana's James Eli Watson orate for two and one-half hours, thought they were listening to the first gun of a G.O.P. Midwest campaign against President Roosevelt. A few of them even fancied they were witnessing the start of a drive by the long-legged, large-paunched. small-eyed ex-Senator for the party's 1936 Presidential nomination...
...pistol at them as he drove off. Chauffeur Spinks denied the charges, asserted that Son Rogers had kicked him in the back of the head and in the face when he was examining the car's lights. He did not know which of them had fired the gun, which belonged to Rogers, while they were scuffling...