Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waggish professors in elementary physics never fail to put to their classes such a question as: "If a stone deaf man, alone on the moon, should shoot off a cannon, would there be any sound?" Ensnared students readily answer yes; should answer...
Died. James J. Campbell. 62, Pittsburgh steelman; at Pasadena, Calif. His first job: painting cannon balls in front of the Washington arsenal. His last: vice president of Carnegie Steel Co. He was no kin of President James A. Campbell of Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
Married. Ugo Zacchini, 31, "the human cannon ball," who is shot from a cannon daily in Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus; to Elizabeth Walker, of Berlin; Bruno Zacchini. 29. who fires the cannon; to Gertrude Reigel, of Berlin; in a double wedding; at Sarasota...
...concrete horseshoe of Mexico's National Stadium stood two soldiers last week, solemnly slapping the hips of everyone who entered, searching for pistols. In a parking space nearby a sergeant of artillery elegantly picked his teeth while black-eyed Indian children gazed, owl solemn, at the battery of cannon under his charge. Inside the stadium 50,000 people bought hot frijoles (baked beans roasted in corn husks) and cold beer from shrill peddlers, gazed impatiently at the platform garlanded with red and white carnations, green palm leaves, where sat the entire Mexican Congress, frock-coated, silk-hatted...
...minutes past twelve. A bugle blew. The cannon in the parking space banged out a 21-gun salute. Soldiers in black dress uniform snapped to present arms. Three bands simultaneously struck up the Himno Nacional Mexicano ("Mexicans! to the cry of war . ."). Detectives and police stalked up and down the rows of seats looking for possible assassins. Entered portentously the President-Elect, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, large-toothed and smiling, a green, white and red sash across his chest, accompanied by his predecessor, Emilio Fortes...