Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five long tables. When in good health, Tom Kearney spends most of his time behind his cigar counter which, unlike those run as blinds in most bookmaking establishments, actually makes money. His private office is a lounge behind the counter furnished with easy chairs, a safe. Once a gunman entered the store to hold him up. Tom Kearney shot him dead...
Among the sad collection of foreigners being shipped out of the U. S., only one is glad to be returning whence he came. He is a noted gunman, and the Department of Labor's free ride back to Italy fits his plans perfectly. With his gains of violence he can settle down under an olive tree and live happily ever after. But the gunman's ex-colleagues are loath to have him go. Two of them board the train, quietly pass the word among the passengers that, as witnesses to a murder, their stay...
...letter. O'Casey wrote two more, Harvest Festival and The Crimson in the Tri-Color. The latter was set down on paper a friend stole for the poverty-stricken playwright from a printing plant. These, too, failed to make the Abbey. But his next, The Shadow of a Gunman, did. World fame came with Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars. When the Abbey turned down The Silver Tassic, an anti-War piece, O'Casey split with the organization, moved to England. Within the Gates is the first O'Casey play without an Irish...
...Knoxville Journal's front page of the same day was splashed a six- column close-up picture of the bare, bloody torso of a dead gunman, punctured by 23 police bullets. Such journalistic antics were unknown on the sedate Journal while Luke Lea owned it. But with onetime Publisher Lea in a North Carolina prison, the newspaper's control has been vested in the remote, impersonal hands of New Orleans' Canal Bank & Trust Co. and the present titular owner, Nat G. Taylor, son of Tennessee's late Governor. Meanwhile the editorial staff has delighted in doing as it pleases. City...
...named Lance (Richard Barthelmess), a rival gangster named Angie, Angie's sister (Ann Dvorak) with whom Lance is in love, and an old lady (Helen Lowell). The old lady lives in a brownstone house opposite Angie's night club. When Lance, running away from Angie's gunman, comes through her back door, she takes an interest in him. When he needs an alibi for the murder of Angie, she supplies it. A mild fable with a morbid personnel, Midnight Alibi is impaired rather than improved by Richard Barthelmess, who makes grotesque faces when he tries to talk...