Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wages reduced. The workmen refused to work for less money and took possession of the steel 'works. The company hired Pinkerton detectives who, armed with Winchester rifles, came up the Ohio River on two barges. The workmen threw up barricades of steel billets and railroad ties, mounted a cannon on each side of the river and fired upon the detectives. The detectives returned the fire. The workmen poured oil on the barges and on the river, and prepared to set the oil afire. The detectives surrendered. Seven men were killed and 20 to 30 wounded. The state government sent...
Score, B. U. 27, Harvard 20. Goals from floor, Cohen 2, O'Brien 2, Cotter 3, Bartlett 2, Harper, Green 2, O'Connell, Burns 3. Goals from fouls, Cohen 3, O'Brien 2, Cotter, Bartlett, Soutitre 2, Harper, Barbee 2, Green, Burns 2. Referee, Oswalt Tower. Timekeeper, Bradford Cannon '29. Time of halves, 20 minutes...
Just what "freshwater college" means has always been a bit hazy in my mind, but if it means "lovers' lane;" "the Cannon;' college town;" nearby woods and swimmin' pools, as compared with various asphalt diploma factories, every Freshwater College from Princeton to Siwash will gladly join the chorus. Ask George...
Julius Caesar and Boss Tweed ... Cleopatra and Coolidge ... Shelley and Trader Horn ... the flood of biographies comes pouring in out of the publishers' presses. Chaliapin and Bismarck ... Napoleon and His Women Friends ... Robespierre and Uncle Joe Cannon ... with every anecdote that ever murmured about them in five point type. All the state secrets the private correspondence, the family albums, the unkind word and the billet doux that was lost before it could be committed to the flames...
...Holingshead volumes, of which there are two in the cases, are dated 1571 and 1577. They are filled with quaint woodcuts depicting chiefly battle seenes in which the earliest cannon figure. Printed in old English black letter, they are replete with marginal sub-titles, and bear on the title-page a solicitous "God save the Queene...