Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viewing the production itself, one must accept the fact that Sidney Howard, the author, made no serious attempt to sweep his audience off its feet. The violent emotions of fear, hate, and rage, that Harvard's eminent Dr. Cannon has so well described are permitted to lie dormant. Effects are obtained by the presentation of agreeable and familiar types, involved in situations which bring out character and comedy...
...voters made Virginia the 32nd straight State to ratify the 21st Amendment last week, carrying even Bishop James Cannon Jr.'s hometown of Blackstone...
...they can be had for as little as sixty-nine cents? Aren't the Powers Above aware that this nuisance is deleterious to the health? In my own case, I get one less hour of sleep each night. Think, too, of the psychological effect. It's like having a cannon go off outside your window! It usually spoils my whole morning, and I am sure I am not alone in my plight...
...roared a sergeant, and up the hill went the cannon while the soldiers cheered. Later in the day, still full of energy. Il Duce took his place in the line again with chin up and swinging arms, pacing a battalion of the 67th Infantry in a route march to strain the legs of the shortest...
...ignored the festival, it was a thumping spectacle such as visitors at fairs love to see. Some 85,000 spectators vigorously applauded as Bandmaster Arthur Pryor directed massed bands through favorite Sousa marches. They were awed by a rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture eked out by booming cannon and skirling fireworks to represent the burning of Moscow, delighted by a flaming 40-ft. portrait in fireworks of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...