Cavalcante was able to avoid capture for almost two weeks despite hundreds of law enforcement personnel searching for him. Cavalcante is known to have stolen a rifle with a gunsight on it Cavalcante was captured earlier today in the woods west of Pennsylvania having been subdued by a police ...
Band Filer metal worker in the gun making industry Bandster bound the wheat sheaves after harvest Bang Beggar An officer of the parish who controlled the length of stay of any stranger to the parish. Banker dug ditches to allow drainage, placing the surplus earth in banks Banksman or Browman...
To this day, sitting in the front passenger-seat of a motor-vehicle is still called “riding shotgun” – an allusion to the armed coach guard who would sit next to the driver of a stagecoach, to provide armed protection in the event of a holdup. For all these reasons and more, fo...
and the songs for what becomeAnnie Get Your Gunwould wind up being written by Irving Berlin. Nevertheless, asked if he knew anything from the score, Jule said, "Sure" - and sat down at the piano and played a very
I had gone back as an Observer into the French gunmaker living at that time who had actually made the invention. Apart from discovering the secret of this musket, I had made two other interesting discoveries: 1. I had found I was one of those rare individuals called an Empathiser. ...
COACH-WHEEL a dollar or crown-piece. CROOK a sixpence. DUCE Twopence is called a duce. FADGE a farthing. GROCERY half-pence, or copper coin, in a collective sense. HALF A BEAN, HALF A QUID half-a-guinea. HALF A BULL half-a-crown. JOGUE a shilling; five jogue is five shillings...
–Good morning, Miss Ratched. –Mr. Washington. –Morning. –Morning. –Good morning, Miss Ratched. –Good morning. –Morning, Bancini. –Good morning. How you feel? Rested. Medication time. Medication time. Okay, move it up. Mr. Fredrickson, just be careful now. ...
I saw the other day four or five of these fellows strolling on behind their cart. Amongst them was a young woman very well dressed, wearing a sun-bonnet … [with] a full flap behind at least a foot long, to screen the neck. On one shoulder she had a gun, and in the other hand...