Word: cannoneering
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...only as a brilliant sideline that he designed the first cast-steel, breech-loading cannon, which gave France, in the War of 1870, its first taste of Krupp-built firepower...
...Gustav's only diversion seems to have been reading timetables for typographical errors. He allocated precisely 60 minutes a week to playing with his children-for his day was devoted to building the world's first and biggest fleet of U-boats and the famous 420-mm. cannon, sentimentally called "Big Bertha" after his wife. Before World War I, Gustav thriftily licensed Britain's Vickers company to make Krupp time fuses, provided that Vickers paid him one shilling threepence per shell fired. In the turmoil of trench warfare, the shell count was forgotten. But after the bloody...
...better to abstain from profit. Young Germans are among the world's least militaristic people - perhaps because they have been profoundly influenced by the example of the past. So too, in part, have the postwar managers of the Krupp works who have consistently refused to produce cannon. The final irony: two months ago, with the last Krupp gone, the company's management announced that it would not produce guns or rockets but would intensify activity in the military sphere, seeking orders for armored vehicles and warship hulls...
...sometimes even bumping up against the surface, rages The American Civil War, the real one. A lost Confederate general, so scared he hears himself calling out his own name, "running through the casual but chess-like deaths in the Wilderness." A headlike corpse. Upstairs and downstairs. Marijuana smoke and cannon smoke. As the Poet sings: "A punctured lung, and the band plays on." The perfect Setup...
...Circus--Not among the Marx Brothers best, but still funnier than anything else around, save their "Night at the Opera." Before this movie is over, Margaret Dumont is shot out of a cannon, and Groucho gets to sing an Arlen-Harburg number about a tattooed lady. At the SYMPHONY II, Huntington at Mass...