Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gatling of Chicago perfected his machine gun in 1861, Sir Hiram Maxim his in 1889-both more than 40 years...
...farmer and wife. He beat her shortly after. She and children fled here, while Gillard was out walking. He came home and followed her here. I always carry a 32 Smith and Wesson revolver indoors, not out, because I live entirely alone. I came down stairs with the gun on and found Gillard beating his wife to death with a pair of heavy tongs, hitting her over the head. I attacked him empty handed. He knocked me down and I got up and went at him again. This time he knocked me senseless. My secretary at the time, a powerful...
...pinkish red by sun and sea wind, President Hoover returned to the White House from reviewing the U. S. fleet off the Virginia Capes. Aboard his reviewing ship, the U. S. S. Salt Lake City, the President had clambered up and down steel ladders, poked in and out of gun turrets, inspected the officers & crew, thoroughly enjoyed himself...
...Fort Saulsbury, Del., Capt. William R. Maris, commandant, received from neighboring farmers an anonymous request to refrain from gun firing, thus to protect their turkey eggs from cracking...
...Chinatown several years before the Civil War to protect its members from the invasion of competitors in business, from legal injustice (or justice). So effective was it that rival or imitative tongs were soon found wherever there were Chinese colonies. Tong leaders began employing hatchetmen (boo how doy), gun- men who managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled the constabulary. Gory, clever, macabre, the tong wars of the early twentieth century had much the same effect on the U. S. public as Chicago's gang-battles; they turned harmless laundrymen into homicidal maniacs from sheer contagion...