Word: pistolling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly the door opened to reveal Homer Martin's evangelical features looking like those of a cornered gangster. He had a cigaret between his lips, a pistol in his fist. Stepping back from the pistol pointed at his midriff, Leader Gallagher said icily: "That's a hell of a way to greet a union...
Embarrassed, Mr. Martin put his gun away, promising to meet the delegations later. But as word spread swiftly throughout the city that Homer Martin had pulled a pistol on his own men, the milling crowd outside the hotel grew so big that police were called to disperse it. Rumors spread that Homer Martin was setting the police on his own men-a more heinous labor crime than pulling a pistol...
...first Mr. Martin denied that he pulled a pistol, later tried to laugh it off, declaring that his life had been threatened on 500 different occasions. Said he: "Intelligent and decent citizens don't come to one's hotel room and try to break the door down. Only thugs and gangsters do that...
...Thanksgiving Day 1927, ten convicts and a guard were killed rioting, Warden Clarence A. Larkin of California's toughest State prison, was last fortnight interviewing inmates about parole applications. Suddenly seven of some 40 convicts in his office sprang out of line, bared knives and a dummy pistol. One demanded that Warden Larkin telephone the watch tower guards to hand down rifles to the inmates. Others covered two guards. In a room nearby, the warden's secretary, Jack Whalen, heard the commotion, recalled what Warden Larkin had told the prison staff: "If I am ever kidnapped...
...Guillermo Collins expectorated on the trousers of one John Ballach. Apologizing, Collins bent over to wipe it off. When Collins straightened up, Ballach noticed his money was gone from his pocket. Collins started to run, pursued by Ballach and an ever-growing mob. Suddenly, at 49th Street, a pistol shot cracked out, Collins stopped. Patrolman William E. Kelly, member of the U. S. 1936 Olympic water polo team, ran up, rescued him from the mob, made his first arrest since joining the force Sept...