Word: bullet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cell block, past the barricades which they had piled up with mattresses, chairs, beds at corners where they could shoot down a corridor two ways and back up to a stairway. Troopers told a convict named Johnson, who was helping them, to pull a mattress off a barricade. A bullet stopped Johnson when he took his first step. A bullet stopped Captain Bruton of the guards. On the top floor there were six rebels left. Troopers brought machine guns into position...
...lost money to Rothstein at poker. Later he had taken a room at the Park Central Hotel, ordered whiskey, summoned Rothstein by telephone. Rothstein was seen staggering away from the room clutching his belly, was found at the servants' entrance of the hotel with a fatal bullet wound in his groin. He refused to name his assailant. An automatic pistol was picked up on the street under McManus' window, in the screen of which was torn a big hole...
...Bullet...
...Chicago one Benjamin Friedman was shot in the mouth while pursuing a gunman who had held him up. He spat out three teeth, chased on, wondered where the bullet had gone. At a hospital he learned he had swallowed...
...trigger clicked once, twice, three times, but no explosion, no bullet belched from the rusty weapon. From icy bravery the President's look changed to icy contempt...