Word: catapults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid, mechanically-minded medical students approached their school bearing in triumph a large wooden catapult with which they intended to cobblestone the police. The police, in their tightly belted, skirtlike green-grey capes, charged before the catapult could be set up. There was a fusillade of shots. A Civil guard cavalryman was killed. A messenger boy delivering football tickets 100 yards down the street was severely wounded. Two days later Madrid students attempted a march on the Royal Palace, led by dozens of shouting, excited girls. Police, with Spanish gallantry kept their swords sheathed, thumped the girls' heads with rubber...
...Catapult Muffler...
...from silent pictures in which, after taking a blow on the jaw in a farce bout with a fighter not mentioned on the program, Comedian Joe E. Brown bounces across the ring from one set of ropes to the other as though each set were a catapult...