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Word: gunning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since the 'trouble' started on Aug. 13 Ed Easley and I played golf. Place: Inside race course in heart of Shanghai. Time: Sunday, Sept. 26, 9.00 a.m. Par 35, 9 holes. Unusual hazards. Eight bombers over Pootung-bombs dropping-anti-aircraft gun fire, machine gun fire, screeching sirens of ambulances on Bubbling Well Road. Scores: Rotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Clayburn (Spencer Williams Jr.). Doc, now an honest peddler of snakebite remedies wants to return the money to the people he took it from in his outlaw days. His daughter, Carolina (Connie Harris), knows they never will be happy lessen he do. But Doc dies in a gun battle and the sheriff, with Jeff's aid, gives Wolf his just deserts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Biggest laughs of the whole film are provided by Holywood's conception of a football game. Among directorial novelties is the timekeeper who fires a gun to denote the end of the game...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 12/7/1937 | See Source »

...Fathers (Twentieth Century-Fox). The 45 members of the Spear and Gun Club draw lots to decide which of them is to make a home for Cinemoppet Jane Withers. Jane, chunkily healthful, insufferably precocious, tries to smuggle a chimpanzee into Manhattan, demurs at singing and dancing lessons, straightens out another puppy love life. Redeeming feature: the dancing Hartmans, disguised as The Marvelous McCoys, adding ventriloquism to their repertory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

MURDER UP MY SLEEVE-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). One death, by a dart from a Chinese sleeve gun, with suspects that include members of San Francisco's social set, Chinatown characters, and the detective himself (who is Terry Clane, successor to Author Gardner's famed Perry Mason). First rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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