Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spoke M. Gallard, prefect of the Cote d'Or, witheringly: "No animal is game that one does not hunt for sport with a weapon. Does one need a gun for snails? Does one perhaps require horses and a pack of hounds? Does one sound a horn? But no! One simply pulls him off a wall with the fingers. That, messieurs, is not sport...
...Enrique Olaya Herrera surprised his countrymen by issuing without warning last week two decrees: the first prohibits from July 1 "the sale of alcoholic beverages, except beer, between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. and on Sundays and holidays;" the second strikes directly at the old Colombian custom of gun-toting, drastically restricts imports of firearms, stiffens the requirements for licenses to carry them...
...being candidly selfish, sinister, caddish with pleased expressions. Back in the Secret Service, Baxter captures a killer-counterfeiter to get his hand in, then investigates his fiancee's murder of an international spy, her brother-in-law. He tries to save her from the consequences by recovering the gun from an umbrella stand at midnight. He gets shot, almost dies. His faithful butler reels, almost faints when he hears the news. To please a friend, Baxter's superior destroys the evidence against Karen Morley. Man-of-Action Baxter can now marry Woman-of-Action Morley...
Hastily machine gun units were rushed to strategic points in Athens. Interest payments on Greek loans held abroad we're "stopped to avert a collapse of the drachma." President Alexander Zaimis was reported about to assume dictatorial powers, for good reason: the General Confederation of Greek Workers had abruptly decided to call a Greek General Strike "in sympathy with demands for higher wages already made by individual unions...
When Major Sands, from the poop deck of the trading-ship Centaur, just under way from Antigua to England, sees the 40-gun Black Swan sidling up, he trembles for himself and for his charge. He is escorting back to England lovely Priscilla. daughter and heiress of Antigua's onetime governor, the late Sir John Harradine. The Centaur's captain maneuvers his ship like a fool and the only other passenger, de Bernis, is known to have been a buccaneer...