Word: cannoneer
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...pack of delightful bastards ... tie your hats on because we're all going for a fast ride." Editor Gauvreau is 39, lean, gimlet-eyed, hardboiled, literate. He walks with a limp, the result of "shellshock" suffered as a youngster when practical jokers set off a Fourth of July cannon under his bed room window. He was schooled on the ultra-conservative Hartford Courant, of which he was managing editor when he went to work for Macfadden. The Mirror had less than 400,000 circulation when he joined it. It has now about 600,000. In September Editor Gauvreau will...
...Europe's onslaught against U. S. tariffs last week Briton Bell also led. Too much of a gentleman to flay by name the country in which he was a guest, Banker Bell politely remarked: ''Tariffs, as I see them, are the intrusion into economic well-being of the cannon and the machine gun, the high explosive, the poison...
Although U. of C. is not a member of the "aristocracy of brains" it seems that the school that turned out men like "Uncle" Joe Cannon, William Howard Taft, Charles Gates Dawes, and Nicholas Longworth deserves to be mentioned when one of her favored sons passes...
...social as well as scientific, this year elected among 25 new members Walter Sherman Gifford, Frank Billings Kellogg, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Adolph Simon Ochs, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. But no women. Last woman admitted was Agnes Repplier, 73, author and Laetare Medalist, in 1928. Before her was Annie Jump Cannon, 67, Harvard's patient star recorder...
...Contrasting sharply with the arrival of Prince Takamatsu of Japan, for whom cannon and orators boomed (TIME, April 20), the arrival in Manhattan of Charles, Count of Flanders, Prince of Belgium, second son of King Albert of the Belgians, was so unostentatious as to cause comment by ship-news gatherers. Flatly the Prince disavowed intentions to "study" any "conditions" in the U. S. Said he: "I am a tourist, just as you would be in my country...