Word: guns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dipped over knolls, swung around curves, the headlights hollowed out a bright cone of light in the enveloping blackness. Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men sprang from the roadside, shouted to him to halt. Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five men were flung into a ditch, unhurt. W. L. Tribbey and Paul Kille, neighbors, drove up, offered help, were greeted with guns. Would...
...shop, no office door was opened one morning last week in Gastonia, N. C. Grim-faced, sullen men lounged about silent streets. They were waiting for the funeral of Chief of Police Orville F. Aderholt, murdered in a gun fight with textile strikers...
...Schwimmer, rendered cynical by her defeat, remarked: "If I had invented a new gun or poison gas I would have been so welcome...
...Manchester 21, answered her notice. She hired them both. Parks was the more stupid of the two, Manchester the harder. She insured Parks's life for $7,000, with a double indemnity clause in case he died by accident. Then she worked on young Manchester to take her gun and kill Parks. She promised Manchester $1,000 of the $14,000 they would realize. After some hesitation, and some difficulty luring Parks to a good spot, Manchester did his part of the bargain last week...
...ears with cotton. Toward the end of the second act, the muscular "Chinese" O'Neill, soldier of fortune extraordinary, finds himself and his English friends, including the dashing Hon. Nancy Beresford, trapped within a rickety Chinese inn by crawling yellow men. O'Neill begins blasting away with a machine gun. The ladies have horse pistols. Several other characters have miscellaneous shooting irons. But despite this artillery the Chinamen triumph, enter with a cabinet in which is contained the corpse of the Hon. Nancy's cowardly fiance, Gerson St. George...