Word: cannoneer
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...Down to Washington's Navy Yard went the President to greet returning Antarctic Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd. Cannon boomed a 13-gun salute to Admiral Byrd, a big-gun salute to Secretary Swanson, two 21-gun salutes to President Roosevelt-a prodigal display which left Grandchildren ''Sistie" and ''Buzzie'' Dall quailing...
...this way," a droll Sylt salt observed. "We've got a bird sanctuary all right and the birds are laying fine. Some of them lay long-range cannon behind the sand dunes. Others have only laid gun emplacements. One old hen, I noticed, laid a small gunpowder factory...
...continent has caused many misgivings as to the future of Britain and of the world. It is perhaps this ominous clued which in some quarters dampened the rejoicing at the jubilee. But, as one observer put it, Londoners are so used to dark clouds that yesterday only a real cannon ball from across the channel could have disturbed their King's celebration...
Following a trip to Joe-English Mountain in New Hampshire later this month, the members of the Club will make the final ascent of the season when they climb the precipitous face of Mt. Cannon...
...tradition of dispatch. As the tanned man looked up into the rough-hewn face of the successor of Henry Clay of Kentucky, James K. Polk of Tennessee, Howell Cobb of Georgia, Schuyler Colfax of Indiana, James G. Elaine of Maine, Thomas B. Reed of Maine, Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, Champ Clark of Missouri and Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, he must have been tempted to point out that it was time for the House to live up to its tradition...