Word: gunplay
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...stuck a revolver out of his office door and fired, hitting the Cherokee in the shoulder. Then Texas joined the others in flight. His falling blood incarnadined the marble steps as he ran down. The other cowboy lost his way, ran into the kitchen and, after a little miscellaneous gunplay, was knocked on the head...
...accused; suspicion shifts suddenly to the daughter herself. Finally the winds of evidence blow up from a totally different quarter and point the weathercock of circumstance toward the least expected actor. Although the solution is fairly ingenious it is not worth waiting for through two Plundering hours of gunplay, tears and tired old jokes...
WANDERER OF THE WASTE LAND? Zane Grey?Harper ($2.00). Mr. Grey thinks this his "most mature and finished work." It is another tale of gunplay and men who are unquestionably men. The hero shoots his brother, almost dies of thirst, kills a man barehanded, engages in unsuccessful battle with a rattlesnake. "Death Valley", that California waste of bleached bones and sunstroke, is the locality chosen by one of the unpleasanter characters in which to frighten his wife to death...