Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Open Up!" The bullet creased the head of a baby in a nearby yard and Craig went back inside his rooms, slammed the door and waited for the inevitable squad car. When the cops arrived he answered their yell of "Open up!" by firing three shots through the door. That started the biggest and noisiest gun battle in recent Chicago history...
...sweating cops hauled the gunman out, dead, with 18 slugs in his body. The crowds pressed into the yard, surged around the corpse, struggling, pushing and snatching for souvenirs...
...tides. He didn't know much, but one of the things he knew was that the Queen was the mother of her country; motherless Master Wheeler made up his mind to see her. So past the Windsor Castle guards he slipped one foggy November night, into the castle yard, and then, startlingly, down into an open coalhole. When the grimy urchin eventually groped his way upstairs and surprised the Queen at her dinner table, she forgot her composure sufficiently to shout "Great Heavens...
Castle officials trembled before the wrath of their superiors, who also trembled before the blows of the press and the demands of the public, all intent on discovering the plot behind Wheeler. When Scotland Yard's best inspector reported that Wheeler was little more than a curious small boy, the inspector was told to look again. Wheeler himself suffered untold indignities: examinations, denunciations, investigations, and once even a bath...
From the garden of his London house, Henry Bishop peered at the red-faced stranger in the yard next door. The man was staring straight up at the bathroom where Bishop's wife was making splashing sounds in the wash basin; suddenly he burst into a clumsy dance of delight and blew a kiss to the window...