Word: cannoneer
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...infamous as you choose-started life in the gutters of Providence when that town was noted mainly for its smells of whale-oil, rope, duck, slaughterhouses and rum made from molasses. Aside from these industries, it busied itself right patriotically, when the time came, with turning out muskets and cannon -"cannon to stand still for the Rhode Island defenses and wheeled cannon for the troops of Washington to lug about with them in their everlasting retreats." To be exact, Betty "arrived in America in 1775, along with the Goddess of Freedom, and with as little prospect of success." Her family...
...parade completed, President Doumergue sounded forth to the assembled multitude of 25,000 this version of an ancient formula: "I proclaim the opening of the Olympic Games of Paris, celebrating the eighth Olympics of the modern era!" Instantly trumpets trumpeted, cannon thundered, a cloud of carrier pigeons wheeled aloft to wing far beyond France's borders with the news...
Uncle Joe Cannon refused to leave his retirement and the delights of rustic pursuits...
...Adopted a resolution proposed by Democratic Floor Leader Finis J. Garrett, congratulating former Republican Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon on his 88th birthday...
Professor Cannon pointed out that warm-blooded animals, such as birds and mammals, have hair and feathers which help to maintain a fairly fixed bodily heat. Even this changes, however; in the space of twenty-four hours, a man's temperature can rise or fall 20 degrees. "And this fact," said Professor Cannon, is the greatest of all reasons against Professor Davis' new industrial day. If we got up at 3 o'clock in the morning, the day's industry would start off with a very bad four hours...