Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he was nothing short of alarmed at the imminence of a third Battle of the Century. What, he asked, if Billy Sunday, following the example of Aimee Semple Macpherson Hutton who plans to team up with the great Mrs. Costello, should offer a partnership to Machine-Gun Kelly, another famous humanitarian? And what if their paths should cross, what if the Kelly-Sunday team should muscle in on legitimate Costello-Macpherson territory? When they meet in evangelistic competition are life-lines thrown out, or pineapples? Pretty questions, Pollux, I admit, and ones fraught with considerable menace. CASTOR...
...worsted Wood in the first trial. Race officials were so confident that Gar's eleven-year supremacy was about to end that they had the trophy brought down to the judges' stand prior to the second heat. A few moments later Don disqualified himself by beating the gun more than five seconds, and immediately after capsized in the wake of Miss America...
...courtroom bristled with armed men. Every spectator, every lawyer was searched before entering. Even the judge had a bodyguard. It was Harvey J. Bailey who had engineered the Memorial Day break from the Kansas State Penitentiary. It was allegedly Harvey J. Bailey who poured a volley of machine gun bullets into four peace officers and their prisoner in front of Kansas City's Union Station last June. It was Harvey J. Bailey who was captured in his sleep, pistols and machine guns by his side, at the Shannon farm shortly after Urschel's release. It was Harvey...
George V, one of the best bird shots in his kingdom, escaped the mumps last week but had to stop shooting grouse when his rheumatic arm failed him, grew so weak that he could not raise his gun...
...common garden variety of American citizen come to see the Chicago Fair," he remonstrated. Next day as he drove up to the 14th Street entrance of the Fair a squad of cavalry and a battalion of troops snapped to attention. Citizen Hoover smiled and waved as a 21-gun salute went off and the Brothers Dawes, Charles Gates and Rufus, came up to greet him. They visited the California and Iowa exhibits, the Hall of Science. At the Alaskan cabin he chatted with Musher "Slim" Williams, who drove a dogteam from Alaska to Chicago. "Mr. Hoover likes dogs," said...