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Word: gunning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Light Artillery and Heavy Artillery are two categories that keep the august delegates at Geneva awake nights. The Canadian Army boasts still another subdivision: Medium Artillery. In St. John, N. B. last week a brigade of Medium Artillery was out in the bright May sunshine banging away a 21-gun feu de joie in honor of a great occasion: St. John's 150th Loyalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Loyalists | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...saloon and penitentiary came many an oldtime evangelist-converted drunks and burglars who could denounce sin after knowing it firsthand. But the most modern and thorough| going sinners are organized. From gangland has yet to come a reformed Capone to make converts as efficiently as he used to machine-gun rival racketeers. Nearest thing to an ex-gangster evangelist is the well-fed, twinkling tub-thumper who was billed last week at a church in a down-at-heel section of Brooklyn as Lou Hill. "Former Hijacker, Gambler, Confidence Man," a Chicago hoodlum turned holy. High point of imaginative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gangster Evangelist | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...AMERICAN GUN MYSTERY-Ellery Queen-Stokes ($2). Murder of a rodeo rider in Madison Square Garden. Much about ballistics, and twice 20,000 people are searched for the weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: May 29, 1933 | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...Ridley was a hard man to deal with, dealt severely with his tenants. A clue which fitted nowhere was the discovery that Weinstein had been secretly married for eight years to a woman calling herself Mrs. Jack Lee. And the bullets which killed Weinstein came from the same gun which killed Moench two years before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Crime-oj-the-Week | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

Things begin to hum when a new boy arrives, tough Red Barry (Burgess Meredith). Red tried to slip a gun to his brother, waiting to be electrocuted in the State's death house. Actor Meredith, until recently the Dormouse and Tweedledee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 8, 1933 | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

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