Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cuspidor planted on his library rug, and he could make it chime like a bell. Ladies covered their ears at his "hells" and "damns," but everybody agreed he was a stout old character. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives and his full name was John Joseph Gurney Cannon, but Americans called him "Uncle...
Rather, as Uncle Joe saw it, the U.S. got out of step. McKinleyism suited him fine, but Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal" was a devil's brew. Beginning in 1906, when he was already a man of 70, Joe Cannon set himself to use every power of the Speaker's office to stifle the reforms demanded by younger men. From liberals of that time he earned a new and bitter nickname: "Cannon the Strangler." The debatable thesis of Blair Bolles's Tyrant from Illinois is that Cannon was the conservative grit that irritated a goodly part...
...sent the police into Genoa's big Ansaldo shipyards, which they had searched unsuccessfully before. This time they came upon the biggest prize yet. Under a staircase behind a false wall was an underground cavern, and in it were 15 tons of war materiel (including one mountain cannon, 22 heavy machine guns, cases of antitank grenades and time bombs). The passage led to the sea. Police figured the party planned to distribute the arms by boat. On the cavern's wall was the slogan: "These are the weapons of peace...
...first went to Naval Lieut. Charles Lucas in 1856 for pitching overboard a live shell during the Crimean War. Cast from the bronze of captured cannon, the V.C. entitles enlisted recipients who survive to a lifetime stipend of ?10 annually, a salute from officers...
...three-inch cannon in the basement of the Freshman Union may seem like nothing but an old World War I training piece to those who are in a great hurry to reach the neighboring men's room. But when we consider that any potential attack on Cambridge will probably be from the East--down Mass. Avenue, and that the present Varsity Club would thereby make a capital toe-hold command headquarters for such an Attacking Force, the placement of the old cannon takes on significance...