Word: cannonism
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...Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and Thundered," as gallant Errol Flynn led the revengeful six hundred forward against Indja's infamous Surat Khan, murderer of Chukoti. Ahah, caught you that time; you probably thought the Light Brigade charged the Russians in the fated attack at Balaclava...
...back Surat Khan, who has fled with his men to the Crimea to join the Russians after massacring the six hundred's women and children in an unsportsmanlike raid on the English outpost of Chukoti. So it is with murderous hearts that the decimated Brigade finally overruns the cannon at the Valley's end, to drive lance after lance into the Khan's body. Nearly everybody is killed, as countless Britishers, horses, "Indjians," and Russians are speared, shot, and blown apart in the film's most satisfying scene...
...first twenty years. Some of the few additions resulted from a 1908 display of Spanish-American War patriotism by the classes of '99, '00 and, '01 which added the bronze eagle memorial situated over the main hall entrance. Other Spanish-American War mementos include a rapid-firing cannon from the cruiser Harvard which now rests in the basement guarding General Education A offices. Carved panels on one wall of the dining room mark a project known as the Harvard Hall of Fame. Soon after Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Sumner had achieved their niches, alumni surrendered the project as being...
...last flat light tipped the orange trees and spacious rose gardens, a car swung off the main road from Rabat and up the long drive to the big, Norman-style royal villa. His Majesty Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, Sultan of Morocco, stepped out just as two cannon shots sounded through the still twilight air, signaling sunset and the end of Ramadan's day-long fast...
...fully half its length, the Overture builds and rebuilds tocrashingly percussioned climaxes followed by aimless twitterings of clarinets, culminates in the boom of a cannon. ("If the nature of the coda seems cursory . . . one has to remember that Arnold always stops when he has nothing further...