Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking to Vancouver last fortnight, it seemed evident that Labor had decided to lay by its rusty old weapon, the national strike, to use its newer weapons of diplomacy and politics...
...eyed interest. Leaving the courtroom one day Snorkey and his bodyguard, Philip D'Andrea, brushed aside Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley to get into an elevator. Two days later D'Andrea was arrested, searched in the corridor by Secret Service men before gaping policemen, charged with carrying a concealed weapon (.38 calibre revolver). D'Andrea showed a badge reading "Deputy Bailiff of the Municipal Court," was told it was no good. Capone rivals began a war of succession, killed one James L. Quigley, minor gangster...
...quarts of pasteurized goat's milk and enough dried fruit to live on until he reaches London. In his meagre luggage there was also a copy of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience. Discovery of this fact set observers to wondering if the Mahatma had borrowed his catchword and chief weapon from the New England sage...
...Manhattan thoroughfare, erratic bullets from real gangsters' guns killed one and wounded four other urchins (see p. 14). Quick to evaluate a somewhat far fetched parallel between this tragedy and the plot of The Star Witness, Warner executives hurried the premiere of the picture, advertised it as "a weapon . . . to stamp out . . . gangsters and their illicit breed," devoted the proceeds of the first showing to the families of Manhattan's small victims...
...course of his financial manipulations Clark came into possession of the indigent Butte Miner. To his surprise and delight he found it a handy weapon for belaboring Marcus Daly. Daly endured the attacks until 1889, then vowed to put his enemy in his place...