Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately the War Department is deeply immersed in hidebound tradition and takes far too long to use the results of modern inventions and apply them to practical use for the future. The next war will be totally unlike the last. Small field guns, toy cannons and pistol markmanship will be utterly useless, and the teaching of these subjects occupies more time in a valuable college curriculum than the average student ought to spend...
...soft tomatoes blocked his way into the radio station where he was to broadcast. Next he went to Tampa where he had just started to speak from a platform in an empty lot when a dozen hoodlums rushed in, knocked down several of his supporters with clubs and pistol butts, picked up the platform from behind, slid Nominee Browder and platform guests off into the dirt...
...days age a group of American Legionnaires, wearing their Legion caps, and led by members of the local constabulary, broke up a meeting which was about to he addressed by Earl Browder, beating up those who resisted them with clubs and pistol-butts. According to newspaper reports, the attack was made following a cry of "All red-blooded Americans, come...
...Stephen Cartright returned from Siberia a hero and re-entered Carnegie Tech. He was resuming the study of metallurgical engineering which he had abandoned to join the army. He carried a lump on his head where a pistol butt wielded by a Bolshevik had landed. Vacationing from College three years later, Veteran Cartright collapsed. On recovering consciousness he learned that he was incurably blind and deaf...
...Saturday morning diversion of schoolchildren than for the august judgment of the cognoscenti. It is a reasonably brisk embodiment of what neighborhood houses expect from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator, a kleptomaniac (Etienne Girardot), archery practice by a floorwalker, a couple of corpses and Ted Healy as a police sergeant, fumbling helplessly with a service revolver. At the root of it all are the activities of a ring of crooks who have been using the store...