Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first test comes when a religious maniac gets hold of a guard's rifle and threatens a mass massacre of his fellow convicts because they had refused spiritual redemption. With the amazing coolness common to motion picture actors in such crises, Jameson strolls up and takes the gun away from him. The next impasse is a sit-down strike staged at exercise time in the yard by convicts objecting to favoritism in the arrangement of prison jobs. That causes unfavorable publicity and Jameson's policies are criticized by the prison board. He wins a tentative endorsement...
...told the same story he told to the Greenfield police hurriedly summoned to his house on the night of May 25. He was just leaving his garage after driving his wife home from a church meeting when a man in a long coat appeared in the doorway, pointed a gun at him and said in a clear voice: "Norton, I want to talk to you." Mr. Norton ducked into his house and the man disappeared. But he had recognized a face and voice he had worked with for 22 years. "That man," said Mr. Norton, "was Thomas Edwin Elder...
...high spirited young brother of Maureen Elliot (Antoinette Cellier), the Irish girl with whom both are in love. Maureen does not suspect either, until Commandant O'Dea is surprised on a tip given by an informer, shot by Captain Wiltshire after Inspector Hannay's gun jams. When Maureen nevertheless helps Captain Wiltshire to escape a Sinn Fein trap, the Inspector realizes where her affections lie and, as a final gallant gesture, takes the blame for shooting her brother himself...
These were the instructions of Thomas Vaughn Bodine, 67, gun-toting editor of the Paris (Mo.) Mercury. Then he went to a hospital and died last week of intestinal disease. Two days later his body lay in state from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. alongside the desk where he had worked for half a century. Instructions were carried out to the letter: 350 mourners were handed his obituary, fresh off the clanking press. The new Linotype machine, purchased to celebrate the Mercury's 100th anniversary three months hence, was Editor Bodine's great joy. He had started...
...triple somersault in Philadelphia. Despondent over his inability to perform professionally, he last week went to confer with Mrs. Codona, from whom he had been separated for a year, about a divorce settlement. When the conference ended, Trapezist Codona asked to be left alone with his wife, drew a gun, shot her four times, put a fifth bullet through his own head...