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...West Side apartment-house hideout by the front door. Pup-Pup! stuttered a waiting machinegun. He, wild-eyed, slithered into an adjacent courtyard. Puppety-Up-Pup! another gun stammered. Blood oozed; Joe Aiello crumpled down with 57 holes and more than a pound of lead in him. Death had spat from two rented rooms, cunningly chosen for a crossfire. Hundreds of cigaret-butts in each room testified that the gunners had waited long for their prey. Because the trap resembled one which slew Earl ("Hymie") Weiss, another North Side Big Shot, and because that trap was credited to Capone, police...
...Portland, Me., E. H. Dunham, 31, thwarted in love, attempted to swallow poison while in a drug store. Store Manager Lyndon E. Harris saw him, hurled an egg which splattered over Dunham's waistcoat, startling him so that he spat out the poison...
...welter of gardenias and orchids, amid the sheen of many emeralds, in an atmosphere fragrant with excellent things to drink, a new art gallery blossomed last week on Manhattan's artiest street, East 57th, with an opening exhibition that snapped one more spat-button of respectability on the artistic insurgents of 1918: Derain, Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse. Grizzle-chinned Henri Matisse was present in person to confer a Parisian benediction. Owner and patron of the gallery was beauteous Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, onetime daughter-in-law of Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, present wife of Banker-Sportsman William Averell...
...roof of the Pink House perched watchful machine gunners. To their officer the sound of shots in a side street, then a pell-mell rush of troops into the Square, could mean only one thing. Rat-rat-rat-rattled and spat the machine guns...
Again and again Mr. Churchill moved to "report progress" (i. e. to adjourn) and getting no response from the Chancellor, spat out as he reiterated his proposal: "I hope that the Honorable Gentleman will indicate that he accepts this motion if only by a grunt...