Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exactly 10 p. m. the World's third most extensive city-suddenly became the World's darkest. Over 150 battle planes- barred to Germany by the now scrapped Versailles treaty-thundered aloft over Berlin in a night air raid followed by another at dawn. Some dropped cannon cracker bombs. To make things more realistic Air Minister Goring had a section of Berlin subjected to real tear gas. Squads of Nazis dashed about telling teary citizens not to become panicky, assuring them "You will soon be quite all right." To make things still more realistic fake wounded soon appeared...
Died. Helen A. Cannon, 70, daughter and Washington hostess of the late Speaker of the House of Representatives Joseph ("Uncle Joe") Cannon; of heart disease; in Danville...
...Alley. Your interest is aroused by three old codgers (probably ex-Congressmen) talking very loudly--perhaps all are a bit deal--on an adjacent couch. You hear them, as I have sigh and reminisce of the days of Ariemus Ward and James Whitcomb Riley and Uncle Joe Cannon. You hear them curse the speed of the modern generation; you hear them chastise the youth for no longer reading Dickens; you hear them boasting about their remarkable powers of endurance even at the age of 81 and 79 and 73. They mention philosophers, and one of them recalls the day when...
...been less adept in saluting the sophisticated ladies of the French court, less solicitious about the brewing of his tea, perhaps more brusque and profane at the council table. And then a soldier must be a man who is willing to throw thousands of his gallant countrymen into the cannon's mouth to test the efficacy of a strategic principle. Mr. Arliss's "Wellington" would hardly have been able to do this. He would have thought, in his whimsical fashion, of the widows and orphans
...Paraphrasing Henry Morley, for purposes of ambition living men may be blown asunder at the cannon's mouth, cut up with sword or ax, or probed with military lances, but no rational disposition may be made of dead...