Word: gutting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heyday from the 14th to the 17th Century. It has a pear-shaped body built of pine or cedar staves pieced together like the crescent divisions of a melon. Its neck (lengths varied) has a fretted keyboard over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined...
Married. Nanette Guilford (nee Gut-man), 23, "baby star" of the Metropolitan Opera Company; to Max Rosen, 28, concert violinist; in Manhattan...
Great was the regret of short, round-faced Boss O'Connell when the spatter of bullets broke the peace of his demesne on an early morning of last week. Into the heart of "The Gut" had marched Prohibition Agents Irving Washburn and Wilfred Grisson, bent on arrest. Suddenly, a group swarmed from an open doorway. Guns were drawn, fired. Agent Grisson escaped uninjured. But Agent Washburn fell to the pavement, mortally wounded...
Echoes of the shots were heard many miles from Albany. This had been no ordinary Prohibition raid. A very definite understanding had existed between the Federal agents and Boss O'Connell. If not molested, "The Gut" had promised to restrain itself from too-overt alcohol smugglings and rowdy boozings. Following the political tirades of Theodore Roosevelt the younger that a slimy trail of vice and corruption had crawled "to the very steps of the State Capitol," Boss O'Connell and his friends had been "making character" for the sake of Governor Smith...
Last week's visit by Agents Washburn and Grisson seemed to indicate pressure from high Federal powers. "The Gut's" murderous loss of self-control boded ill for the Brown Derby...