Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after being ill for nine days with an attack of pneumonia, on his fifty-ninth birthday, and two hours after winding up his watch. His fellow-countrymen had graven on his tombstone : 'Frederick W. Taylor, the Father of Scientific Management.' In France, at Neuve Chapelle, meanwhile, British cannon were spitting out hundreds of thousands of shells which, like the parts of a Ford car, had been manufactured on conveyors. Never, in fact, had the world been so closely interconnected, and never had the individual human being been so powerless as now-a tiny thing amid volcanic mountains. Lieutenant...
...sirens, alarm bells and whistles brought all Warsaw business to a stop, just before Chancellor Hitler received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...
...were unlimbered, trained on the fort. The first few shells were completely wild, either kicking up dirt harmlessly below the fort or shrieking off into Havana's residential district thousands of yards beyond with most embarrassing results. But soon they dropped shell after shell into the fort. With cannon, anti-aircraft and machine guns the rebels replied, scored their greatest success by smashing a field gun on Burro Hill, mile and a half away, with two shots from a little one-pounder...
...with all monarchs who leave their thrones in such precipitous manner, one's grief is slightly lessened for this great soul by the recollection that it was Nadir who rid himself of the obnoxious Ahmad Shah by the simple expedient of blowing him from the muzzle of his biggest cannon...
HERBERT D. CANNON...