Word: cannoneer
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...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...
...homecoming. Practically all of Rome and its hordes of visitors flocked to Fiumicino Airport at the mouth of the muddy Tiber, 15 mi. outside the city, to see the planes arrive. As usual Balbo's triad landed first to a deafening frenzy of cheering, whistle-blowing, bell-clanging, cannon-shooting. The General taxied his plane alongside an improvised receiving stand (a derrick platform) where stood Benito Mussolini, Crown Prince Umberto, the King's aviator-cousin the Duke of Aosta, U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long. He stood on his plane's thick wing for a moment, arm outstretched...
...Observatory Thursday to see stars were sadly disappointed by the overcast skies. One eager maiden anxious not to miss the wonders of the heavens took a taxi in the Square directing the driver to the Harvard Observatory. "Hurry." Evidently the driver thought she was a budding Annie J. Cannon and set off on a thirty-mile drive to the Blue Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass. As soon as the meter read over $2.00, the astrophile began to wonder, but the fare was $5.40 from the Square to Bond Street...
...Burke, The Haberdashery. The Harvard Co-operative Society, James Brine Co., Daley's Drug Inc., Gomatos Bros., Morisson MacGowan, J. T. Phelan Co., Worcester Bros. Co., Ruth Evelyn, E. F. Kemp. The First National Stores, Eaton Pharmacy, Amee Bros., Edwin R. Sage, La France Co., Russell R. Cameron, Bernice Cannon. Gustie's Restaurant, Fred Olssons, Cahaly's, Wright & Ditson, Valeteria Shop. Briggs & Briggs, and Max Keezer...