Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having fired this opening gun, "General" Farley prepared for a South-wide radio address from Memphis on the eve of the Tennessee-Alabama-Arkansas voting. Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi were ready to make a whirlwind campaign in behalf of Repeal on the strict basis of party loyalty...
...wearing the Dark Blue of Oxford jogged merrily through a mile race in 4 minutes 12.6 seconds, the fastest time over done in the Stadium or in the Harvard-Yale Oxford-Cambridge meets. He did three grueling laps around the track politely paced by Horan of Cambridge. With the gun for the last lap he went off on a race of his own, and crossed the finish line some hundred yards ahead of his closest competitor. He was not pressed at all during the whole race, if he had been he would surely have put a world's record...
Just before sudden death overtook him. Mad Dog Coll took to wife Lottie Kreisberger, a small brunette who publicly promised to reform her hoodlum mate. After his death Mrs. Coll appears to have given up all thought of reform, for she was once arrested for carrying a gun and last week was indicted for murder in The Bronx...
...pamphlet was a first gun to turn out Tammany in the November election. Papers like the World-Telegram had started their "Tammany Must Go" chorus. But with no serious fusion opposition in sight Tammany never felt less like going in its life. Therefore last week big-bodied bumbling Mayor O'Brien marched into Tammany Hall, got his orders, marched out again confidently to announce: "I am a candidate for re-election." A few days later, when the city's finances were audited, a deficit of $162.000.000 was revealed...
...thing you fellows must understand. If any of you let Michael hit you without giving him a good hiding, you can look for serious trouble with me." Few days later Prince Michael turned up with a badly-bunged nose. Next day. while Carol of Rumania inspected a machine gun factory at Cluj, a General suddenly bawled an order with a voice like a bomb. The shout scared a soldier. The soldier twitched his fingers. His fingers jerked the trigger of a machine gun. B-B-R-R-R-AM ! A dozen bullets whizzed post King Carol's nose...