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Word: gunman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...mistress; Tycoon Melbourn first to jilt his paramour, Jim Towner's wife, then to propose honorable marriage to cool, semi-adventuress Mrs. Wintringham; young Philip Dantry to his first night of love with his clay-footed actress idol. Other figures, not so outwardly respectable, join the shifting parade: Gunman Sicily Tony, actual husband of Jim Towner's mistress and still a rival for her affections; Pat Healy, doorman of old Hector's apartment house; "Lucky Sam" Lipschitz, Dave the Slapper, gangsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Long Day | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...branch of the Imro. Converted by his friend. General Protogeroff publicly announced that he had abandoned violence as a policy, would limit himself to peaceful propaganda. Soon General Protogeroff was shot down as a lily-livered weakling. Left in sole command of the Imro was the sinister gunman Ivan Mihailoff who has publicly boasted that he alone was responsible for the death of General Protogeroff, that not a Bulgarian official dared do a thing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Imro & Umo | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...Chicago, a gunman held up the cashier of the Superior State Bank, was proffered $5,000 in bills, said he did not need that much, selected $700, walked away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...Hoodlum" (list lately compiled and .published by a citizens' committee) was ordered and the police stations were crowded with hundreds of idlers, toughs, men out of work. A few with police records were detained, but most were released. The Tribune roared that a certain gunman would soon be apprehended. Into the Detective Bureau marched Sam Hunt, one of the Capone ''mob," with a onetime city alderman, his lawyer. Smiling, he showed news reporters he was not left-handed (the glove clue), established an alibi, marched out. Chief Detective Stege announced the qualifications of his six search-squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Front Page | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...laid in a mansion in Westchester County, N. Y., whose owner has been mysteriously slain and whose housekeeper creeps about presaging dire events. In addition to its standard equipment of revolvers, bowie knives and falling chandeliers, Spook House also contains one funny Irish policeman, one extremely competent and clever gunman, one beauteous female operative of the Department of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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