Word: cannoneering
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...Boom! A cannon shot from the Society Jazz Band bass drum jolts the chattering crowd outside the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home into a brief silence. The casket is coming out. Boom! A second shot signals the stricken cadence of a dirge. The white gloves of the pallbearers flash in the morning sun as they float their burden to the silver-gray Cadillac hearse. The main party of mourners, a score or so, fit themselves into several cars waiting in line...
...wedding of Miss Bo Derek to the late Count Dracula." Nor do all the portraits meet the palace directive that they be reproduced only on substances of a permanent nature. Wedgwood's basalt bust of Charles fits the bill at $1,700. So does a $1,200 cannon adorned with H.R.H.'s coat of arms. But Charles and Di T shirts are taboo, to the consternation of British manufacturers and the 71 Members of Parliament who have protested that foreigners, unaffected by the ban, are sewing up the market...
...grand moment in 1897 when the memorial stood unveiled. No fewer than 65 veterans who had fought with Shaw stood at attention. "Many of them were bent and crippled, many with white heads, some with bouquets," wrote Saint-Gaudens. Cannon on the Common fired a salute. William James, the philosopher, declared that the casualties' common grave "bore witness to the brotherhood of man." Booker T. Washington, who was a seven-year-old on a Virginia plantation when Shaw died, rose to say that the "real monument" to Shaw "is being slowly but safely builded among the lowly...
...Such a man, today, would necessarily be the victim of specialization. But Leonardo knew more than anyone else in the late 15th century about statics, dynamics, hydraulics, geology, paleontology, optics, aerodynamics and anatomy. In the realms of craftsmanship, from the construction of domes and earthworks to the casting of cannon to batter them down, he seems to have known at least as much as any guild master. Nobody else in his time or culture had such a range of interests. Nor did anybody else share his depth of pessimism; for Leonardo, in his old age, was not Edison but King...
...white stuff, of course; team member Marco Elser recalls "making sure to stay in the course at Williams, or you'd go off into the dirt." And Eric Alberecht thought it was "distracting" to have to "ski through a stream in the middle of a race" at Cannon Mountain...