Word: cannoneer
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...Warner). On Oct. 25, 1854, the suicidal advance of 673 British cavalrymen into the teeth of Russian cannon fire through a valley at Balaklava, in the Crimean war, proved to be a maneuver less beneficial to England's military than to its literary history. Caused by a mistake in orders, the sole practical significance of the charge was to give the glamour of a spectacular British victory to what was really a minor British defeat. Its significance in literature, as the inspiration of Tennyson's famed ballad, will be considerably enhanced by this picture. The Charge...
Crossing Illinois, he paused at the late great Republican Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon's hometown of Danville. ("The Supreme Court gave the country a real breathing spell...
Fesutre of the maneuvers will be the shcoting of A-R-M-Y out of a human cannon...
...after he arrived in India the cream & gold Viceregal Train brought Lord Linlithgow to New Delhi. Out stepped the tallest Viceroy of India ever, with his 6-foot Marchioness and their three young and pretty daughters, Lady Anne, Lady Joan and Lady Doreen Hope. With cannon thundering the 31 guns of the Viceregal salute, the Hopes of India drove off in a carriage drawn by six prancing bays, guarded before and behind by cavalry & the Viceroy's Body Guard, their tunics eddying in glittering waves of scarlet. All this might have fallen flat, but the new Viceroy, after taking...
...France has lost over $2,000,000,000 in gold, much of which has come to the U. S. to build up one huge $10,786,000,000 gold reserve. Ever since Depression hit, such vast sums of migratory capital have charged about the world like tons of drifting cannon balls rolling loose in the hold of a storm-tossed economic ship. Last summer the Department of Commerce estimated that foreigners had $1,200,000,000 deposited in U. S. banks and invested in short term securities, had $2,951,000,000 in U. S. stocks and bonds. Economists have...