Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Congress, a number of eager Congressmen tried to secure for their constituencies a number of captured German cannon and other war spoils to stand about in public places as tokens of the bravery of our sons in arms-and of the enterprise of our sons in Congress. The matter was compromised by passing a general bill for 'dividing the War spoils of all kinds among all the States. These trophies are now cluttering up storage space and the War Department must get rid of them...
...Besides cannon, the list includes: thousands of "Gott mit uns" belt buckles, of steel helmets; hundreds of sabers, of rifles, of cartridge cases, of canteens; and also horse collars, paper aprons, body armor, hand grenades, lances, machine guns, artillery maps, gas masks, trench pickaxes, badges, feed and saddle bags, ball bearings, curb bits, paper cloth, tug chains, tea, coffee, and food-tins, trench cups, paper wagon-curtains, wire cutters, sack fillers, forks and spoons, burlap halters, holsters, mess kits, fur-covered knapsacks, canvas knapsacks, saber knots, trench lanterns, flamethrower nozzles, ornaments, sweat pads, tent pins, tent poles, a paper rein...
...last bugle note sounded in Colombes Stadium; a cannon boomed; down came the broad, embroidered Olympic standard from its masthead. Officials had gathered, had distributed prizes, had declared the Eighth Olympiad at an end. Tag-end events were won as follows : Weightlifting, Italy; yachting, Norway; equestrian sports, Sweden; cycling, France; gymnastics, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland. The few athletes remaining in Paris paid bills, packed trunks, bought tickets, caught steamer-trains, held postmortems. Led by the London Times, British newspapers chimed in on the post-mortems with notes for the most part sour. The Times flatly asserted that the games had inflamed...
...infamous as you choose-started life in the gutters of Providence when that town was noted mainly for its smells of whale-oil, rope, duck, slaughterhouses and rum made from molasses. Aside from these industries, it busied itself right patriotically, when the time came, with turning out muskets and cannon -"cannon to stand still for the Rhode Island defenses and wheeled cannon for the troops of Washington to lug about with them in their everlasting retreats." To be exact, Betty "arrived in America in 1775, along with the Goddess of Freedom, and with as little prospect of success." Her family...
...parade completed, President Doumergue sounded forth to the assembled multitude of 25,000 this version of an ancient formula: "I proclaim the opening of the Olympic Games of Paris, celebrating the eighth Olympics of the modern era!" Instantly trumpets trumpeted, cannon thundered, a cloud of carrier pigeons wheeled aloft to wing far beyond France's borders with the news...