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Technically the gun is described as being a .22 calibre rifle butt, to which is attached a one-inch tube to serve as the barrel. The elevating and traversing mechanisms are worked by geared hand wheels, and have a movable field of 45 degrees each. The blank cartridges are black powder, and the gun is muzzle loading...
...Capt. W. Merle Nelson of Hollywood, Calif. On the evening of the opening day he attached 18 rockets to the lower wings of his biplane, roared off into an inside loop. For a few moments the small night crowd saw what appeared to be a giant glowing cigar butt trace a circle in the dark sky. The circle then swooped downward, burst into flames and Stunter Nelson screamed just once as he was incinerated...
...cheaper cardboard scorecard. If it is not true, then there is small defence for an unhandsome and elaborate system of secrecy. This system has existed too long. It has been without reason save of the most obvious sort. If this weekend's news stories indicate anything, it is the butt of intelligent men. It will probably be continued...
...throwing an ax Captain Butler stands four to eight yards from the butt end of the log target. The beginner should first try to put the ax edge into the log. Later he can try driving spikes into the wood with the ax head. Adroit Captain Butler can cleave a piece of garden hose three out of five times at eight yards...
...plaits, shaved her head, tied a placard around her neck reading "I have offered myself to a Jew" and pinned the plaits to the placard. Until after midnight the girl was dragged from cabaret to cabaret, forced to stand on the stage of each while she was made the butt of vile abuse. No Briton in any of the cabarets was so foolish as to challenge the Storm Troopers at the time but scores of Britons wrote scorching eye-witness letters next day, thoroughly scared the Municipality of Nuremberg which looks to tourists for revenue...