Word: cannoneer
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...Terror a sallow faced little man stood up in a spate of gunfire and shouted an order. A dirty Paris mob had started a street fight, and in the interests of peace it must be stopped. There was the rumble of caissons over the cobbles, the dull roar of cannon, the outcries of a dispersing crowd, and Napoleon had ordered his first artillery into action. From that time on his name was writ large on the map of Europe. The Alps, Italy, Egypt, Marengo, and the little figure came out of the mists of Revolution into the garish sunlight...
...warfare is positively the most humane type invented, because of its humanity; it must not be forgotten that it proved itself the most efficient during the World War even though its use on a large scale was limited to the last two years of that struggle", said W. B. Cannon '96, George Lee Higginson Professor of Physiology, yesterday in commenting on the recent CRIMSON interview on chemical warfare. "Of the 18,000 men in war hospitals that I have recently visited, only four veterans were suffering from poison...
...Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, will be a guest at dinner at John Winthrop House this evening. Afterwards, in the Senior Common, at 7.30 o'clock, Dr. Cannon will talk on a subject in which he is perhaps the country's leading authority, "Mechanisms of Bodily Stabilization...
...social occasion. U. S. Vice Admiral Taylor's aide, Lieut. Henri H. Smith-Hutton, paid a call. Admiral Nomura stepped into his barge and returned it. British Vice Admiral Kelly popped over for a chat. The Press was invited and Admiral Nomura made a little speech. Chapei's cannon rattled the teacups...
Flea Cousin Charlie has been taught to push about an infinitesimal ball. Flea Napoleon trudges along with a small wire cannon in tow. Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...