Word: gunman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fringe, it includes performances by Warren William as a ferociously whimsical detective, Bette Davis, last year's Academy Award winner, in the trifling role of a jewel thief, and a platinum blonde newcomer named Marie Wilson as a squeaky secretary. Typical shot: the detective rebuking a baby-faced gunman for wearing a beret...
...gunman, Bass did not amount to much. His great claim to fame lay in his having taken a minor part in a train robbery at Big Springs, Neb. in 1877, and getting one-sixth of the $60,000 loot. He then led a gang, operating out of Denton, Tex. that held up four trains in a few weeks. The biggest haul, however, was only $1,280, to be divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock...
Since Wayne Gard writes in what critics have called the Little-Did-He-Think school of biography, his labors to enhance Bass's reputation as a bad man are largely in vain. Instead of a portrait of a bold gunman defying the law, readers are likely to think of Bass as a poor illiterate devil who was constantly falling into traps, robbing empty trains, making friends with spies. A tall Indiana boy, an orphan at 13, Bass was caught up in the social chaos that followed the Civil War, drifted South in Reconstruction days, worked in a Mississippi sawmill...
...grew up when Indians were a constant menace, when families huddled together in the uncertain protection of forts in face of raids. She saw enough of the ruthlessness of early settlers to believe in "the inherent nobility of the Red Man." She casually tells a story of a young gunman who killed an unoffending Indian while his whole party was in the hands of the savages. The Indians demanded only his life in return, flayed him alive, while in a similar situation whites would have exterminated all the Indians in the area. Sallie Reynolds traveled to Colorado and back...
...Chicago, held up by a gunman, Street Car Conductor Thomas Gough said, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Don't you know this is Lent?" The man blinked, ran away...