Word: cannoneer
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...patronesses for the Freshman Dance, which is the last event of the 1938 social season until the Jubilee in spring, are: Mrs. Walter B. Cannon, Mrs. Henry Chauncey, Mrs. A. Chester Hanford, Mrs. William E. Hocking, Mrs. Arthur N. Holcombe, Mrs. Delmar Leighton, Mrs. Roger B. Merriman, Mrs. James B. Munn, and Miss Rose Sherman...
While no official pronouncement is forthcoming as yet concerning his successor. Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, Hans Zinsser, professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, and John Homans '99, assistant professor of Surgery, have been mentioned as possible successors...
Said the Pittsburgh Press's Douglas Naylor of the No. 1 prizewinner: "Like some others, this reviewer smiled at first sight of South of Scranton. It seems reasonable to conclude that the cannon atop the queer turret is symbolic of capitalism." William Germain Dooley of the Boston Evening Transcript: "All very childlike and charming and deliberately naïve-but also completely counterfeit and insincere...
...ranks formed. Excitement and anticipation fill the camp. A huge gaunt figure, hatless and cloakless, sweeps imperiously on a white charger to the front of the newly formed platoons. This man commands attentions, respect, admiration, fear. Ranks become straighter, shoulders stiffer, guns arched higher. His voice booms like a cannon through the crisp morning air: "Comrades, this is an historic moment. All Europe watches us today. Victory means freedom from the treacherous claws of Louis of France . . . if we loss our lives, our Country and our homes are the pledge . . Every man will be expected to do his duty...
...that impersonal and brutal engine of destruction which disrupted the entire world. Unfortunately there are others to take his place, others eager to defend their nation's honor, ready to make the supreme sacrifice for a cause they neither understand or care about. The myth of patriotism still supplies cannon with their fodder and armies with their generals. Will it always be thus? Alas, yes, until men begin to ask why they are fighting and refuse to give way to an indefinite emotional sentiment instilled in them by men who sit in easy chairs miles behind the line of action...