Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among Drys as well as Wets. The Wets, of course, flayed the idea as a further encroachment on Liberty, a further botching of a bad law. They said it would make millions of additional criminals, fill jails beyond the bursting point. Drys were divided in their opinion. Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Senator Watson of Indiana were favorable. Such potent Drys as Idaho's Borah and Nebraska's Norris were opposed. The Anti-Saloon League weaseled, said it would consult its attorney. The press agent of the Methodists announced: "The amendment is particularly needful because of the blatant...
...perhaps cadets never heated their cannon-balls before rolling them, but roll them they certainly did down the iron stairways of cadet barracks to the accompaniment of bucketfuls of stone poured from the upper story windows upon the tin roofs of the porches below. And though I recall no instance of a skunk being placed in the desk of a West Point professor, there is an authentic story to the effect that the superintendent's cow was once hoisted to the top of the tower of the old Academic Building and left there in the night to moo--out hours...
Some names have come down to us from the history of these eventful and stirring times, names baptized in the blood of Liberty. The famous General Putnam built a set of bastions there in 1777. Molly Pitcher took a shot with her husband's cannon at advancing British regulars. Thaddeus Kosciusko organized and perfected the fortification in 1778. A great iron chain was forged and stretched across the river on log floats. Mad Anthony Wayne defended its position. Baron Steuben drilled our troops; Washington lived there...
...Cannon to Right of Them...
...another time some enterprising young gentlemen slipped out at night and removed the reveille cannon from its accustomed place. By some miraculous engineering, feat they hoisted it on top of the academic building and fired it off in the dead of night. It took a detachment of Engineers almost a week to lower the gun to its original position...