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Word: gunning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a confederate meet them a few minutes after they arrive, and then the two of them try anything they think they may succeed at. In any case where they have had help offered them they fail to return to obtain it. One has been known to carry a gun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACQUAINTANCES OF HARVARD STUDENTS VICTIMS OF RACKET | 1/27/1931 | See Source »

...step in the outlaw gang-civilization of a big city. Only one man, the mysterious "Big Boy" is higher than he when his luck changes. He loses his power, his money, becomes a flophouse derelict, and finally dies behind a billboard, chewed by bullets from a policeman's machine-gun. Actor Robinson makes Little Caesar far more complete than Author Burnett saw him? a gangster of Greek tragedy, destroyed by the fates within him. The only miscast character is Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as a tough Italian thug. Best shot: Caesar's mob raiding a cabaret protected by a rival gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 19, 1931 | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Some of the revolutionists had machetes, others had shotguns, rifles, pistols; one had a "riot gun." In at the doors and windows of the Central Police Station they poked their weapons, blazed away bang, bang, BANG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: 15-Hour Coup | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...Ayers had been trying to get an interview with President Arosemena at the height of the revolution. Had he not been shot, he would have been with Senor Arosemena as the President faced and quailed before the revolutionist who possessed the riot gun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: 15-Hour Coup | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...bead of my gun right on the guy that was carrying the dog. If he'd made one funny move I'd have got him dead to rights. But he didn't. I figured at the time he was a deputy sheriff." Mildred Davis Lloyd, wife of film Funnyman Harold Lloyd, said: "I hope it's a boy." Expected time: March. Lloyd children to date: Mildred Gloria, 6; Marjorie Elizabeth, 5 (lately adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Animals, Jan. 5, 1931 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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