Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the authorities sought to make inquiry a British cruiser appeared and interfered. It threatened the villagers on both shores with cannon. The Chinese authorities were obliged to detain the British merchant vessels, taking the matter up with the British Consul at Chungking...
...bread to find drowned bodies occurs in Tom Sawyer and also in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. When Huck, escaped from his father after the latter has kidnapped him from Widow Douglas, runs away to Jackson's Island leaving signs of a foul murder, the townsfolk first fire cannon over the Mississippi River to try to raise his supposed corpse by detonation ; then, hiding on the island, Huck sees them throw loaves of bread into the current. As the loaves float down to him, Huck fishes them in, takes out the plugs, shakes dabs of quicksilver...
...President finished breakfast, glanced at his morning mail, then climbed in his punctual limousine, sped* to Plattsburg, N. Y. He arrived. Cannon boomed 21 times, buglers sounded the Presidential flourish, the regimental band struck up the Star Spangled Banner and Hail to the Chief. Within five minutes, the Commanderin-Chief of the Army and Navy was on the reviewing stand, flanked by Col. John H. Hughes, commander of the Plattsburg military training camp, and Major General C. P. Summerall. Before them marched 1,600 citizen soldiers. Then Mr. Coolidge proceeded to inspect the camp in general and the mess hall...
...purchased a forge in Essen; hammered hard and long in making a new product, "cast steel"; died. His good works were carried on by his widow and 14-year-old son Alfred, but little success was achieved until 1847, when the Krupp works exhibited a 3-pound muzzle-loading cannon of cast steel which attracted wide attention. German militarists, pleased, gave orders. The Krupps built model villages- "colonies," with schools, libraries, recreation grounds, clubs, stores. When Alfred Krupp died at Essen in 1887 he was called the "Cannon King...
...gunboat Galveston steamed through the Panama Canal last week turned northward and cast anchor in the Nicaraguan harbor of Bluefields. Simultaneously the U. S. gunboat Tulsa anchored off Corinto on the opposite (Pacific) coast of Nicaragua. Thus U. S. cannon faced each other across the 200 mile extreme width of a nation with which the U. S. is at peace. Several hundred U. S. marines were landed with fighting equipment at Bluefields...