Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homecoming. Practically all of Rome and its hordes of visitors flocked to Fiumicino Airport at the mouth of the muddy Tiber, 15 mi. outside the city, to see the planes arrive. As usual Balbo's triad landed first to a deafening frenzy of cheering, whistle-blowing, bell-clanging, cannon-shooting. The General taxied his plane alongside an improvised receiving stand (a derrick platform) where stood Benito Mussolini, Crown Prince Umberto, the King's aviator-cousin the Duke of Aosta, U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long. He stood on his plane's thick wing for a moment, arm outstretched...
...Observatory Thursday to see stars were sadly disappointed by the overcast skies. One eager maiden anxious not to miss the wonders of the heavens took a taxi in the Square directing the driver to the Harvard Observatory. "Hurry." Evidently the driver thought she was a budding Annie J. Cannon and set off on a thirty-mile drive to the Blue Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass. As soon as the meter read over $2.00, the astrophile began to wonder, but the fare was $5.40 from the Square to Bond Street...
...Burke, The Haberdashery. The Harvard Co-operative Society, James Brine Co., Daley's Drug Inc., Gomatos Bros., Morisson MacGowan, J. T. Phelan Co., Worcester Bros. Co., Ruth Evelyn, E. F. Kemp. The First National Stores, Eaton Pharmacy, Amee Bros., Edwin R. Sage, La France Co., Russell R. Cameron, Bernice Cannon. Gustie's Restaurant, Fred Olssons, Cahaly's, Wright & Ditson, Valeteria Shop. Briggs & Briggs, and Max Keezer...
...Sandhurst where many a royal scion, British, Spanish, Asiatic and Balkan has learned the difficult art of the "slow march," 50 dim, sweating figures executed a strange maneuver one midnight last week. Symbols of R. M. C.'s 134 years of crack officer-breeding are eight ponderous brass cannon whose snouts once faced the British at Waterloo, now yawn harmlessly on Sandhurst's lawn. The 50 dim figures scuttled toward them like ants toward dead beetles. The raiders' leader deployed his men, half a dozen to a cannon. The 50 tugged, pushed, panted. When the maneuver...
Soon the night watchman discovered R. M. C.'s loss. In his nightshirt the College bugler turned out 470 G. C.'s (gentlemen cadets) in their nightshirts. An officer barked out the rollcall. No cadet was missing, none showed marks of cannon-poaching. The 470 were sent back to bed. R. M. C. officers scratched their heads, reflected that Broadmoor Asylum for criminal lunatics is near Sandhurst...