Word: cannoneer
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...said, in case his father's address bored him"; 4) "Helen Taft [Mrs. Frederick J. Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr] is a nice girl and very intelligent without being a prude"; 5) "When the music began the President began to waltz around the room by himself. . . . Uncle Joe [Cannon], though he knew no waltz steps, simply capered around in a sort of ragtime shuffle"; 6) the first cigaret smoked by a U. S. woman (Mrs. Nicholas Longworth) at the White House (Jan. 12, 1910); 7) the whiskey-and-sodas President Taft would press upon amiable guests...
...When cannon boomed from Santiago de Cuba in 1898, Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, temporarily down the coast on his crack, three-funneled flag-cruiser New York, turned her and raced back in time to see the last ship of Cervera's squadron sink, in the second and decisive naval battle of the Spanish War. That cruiser, then five years old, has served ever since, is now the oldest active U. S. fighting ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet...
...Barbados, on the Mackenzie, in India, Egypt, South Africa, wherever British warships or British troops were stationed, crowds cheered while cannon banged a 41-gun salute. Observers had expected some such Empire jubilation for the birth of a boy who would have been third in direct line for the throne, but not for a girl, who stands a poor fourth in line.? whose chance of becoming Queen depends on the deaths of King George, the Prince of Wales (unmarried), the Duke of York, Princess Elizabeth...
...mountain-shadowed harbor last week. A motor procession carried him and his party to a conference with important Brazilian Methodists. They at once began to write a constitution for a Methodist Church of Brazil. Just arrived from Europe with his new wife and meeting them was Bishop James Cannon Jr., the Southern Methodists' missionary bishop of Brazil, as well as chairman of their Board of Temperance & Social Service. When at the end of this month Brazilian Methodists adopt their constitution and elect their own bishop, they will be independent of the Methodist Church, South. Last month Methodist Bishop Warren...
Killed. Harvey Powers, 47, "all around daredevil" (flagpole sitting, air clowning, skyscraper climbing); when, shot from a cannon on an airplane over the ocean at Atlantic City, his parachute failed to open. He had been doing the stunt daily for five weeks, waiting longer and longer before pulling the ripcord...