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Word: gunman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gunman told Mahoney and O'Brien to stand still until the store was clear of customers. He then ordered them to stay in the rear room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gunman Steals Cash from 'Pro' | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...Brien rushed outside the store after the gunman left but failed to spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gunman Steals Cash from 'Pro' | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Come In an' Git Me! | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Dwarf was a five-foot Chinese gunman who had been arrested 15 months ago with 18 others for hijacking a $2,000,000 shipment of gold on its way to Bangkok's Don Muang airport. Now he was out on bail while the case dragged on in Siam's slowpoke courts. So was another chief suspect, a husky retired police captain named Pramote Prathuengphong. The two thieves, it seemed, had fallen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: The Angry Dwarf | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...simple sense of belonging nowhere and to nothing, called themselves the "lost generation." The story of the movie is largely a story of bad casting. In the role of Gatsby, which calls for extraordinary warmth and a wide range of mood, Alan Ladd looks about as comfortable as a gunman at a garden party. Betty Field, though she gives a finished performance as the poor little rich girl Gatsby loves, is subtly wrong for the part. The players who come closest to Fitzgerald's lost souls are Howard da Silva and Shelley Winters as a cuckold and his wayward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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