Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country Congregationalist preacher, Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, 39, grew up on a Neponset farm, left the University of Illinois during the War to join the Marines. At Belleau Wood he captured single-handed 27 Germans in a machine-gun nest, was later severely wounded, returned to the U. S. as a first lieutenant with the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de Guerre, the American Navy Medal. In 1926 he jumped from law school into State's Attorney Crowe's office as assistant prosecutor, curried favor among good Government groups by his fearless campaign against Chicago kidnappers, bombers, murderers...
...Peace Society and the Phillips Brooks House representative on the committee (both of whom led the opposition to national affiliation) are members of a "tireless and determined radical group" merely because they accept the twice-expressed will of the majority. I also liked the title of the editorial--"Shot-Gun Wedding." It is loaded with pertinent implications...
...finally came to Addis Ababa last week. Early one morning a telephone clerk near Dessye called excitedly to say that a huge flight of Italian planes had passed overhead, evidently headed for the Ethiopian capital. Twenty minutes later a sharp-eyed outlook fired a warning gun from the hilltop by the royal palace. Soon ten planes came over the eastern horizon. Traders and warriors in the town rushed into their compounds, blazed away at the sky with ancient muskets, double-barreled elephant guns, Belgian trade rifles, all with no apparent effect. For 15 minutes the Italian planes circled...
...Films had been technical. For this picture, which was made before the Denham studios were ready to function, Producer Korda installed a "Special Effects Department" under Ned Mann. More astounding than the gigantic outdoor sets constructed under Art Director Vincent Korda were Mr. Mann's miniatures: a space gun 20 feet high (see cut) with tiny puppets running around it on moving belts; bat-shaped airplanes apparently capable of carrying armies; a sky-darkening air-force swooping over the Dover Cliffs...
...divorced wife of Wall Street Plunger Jesse Livermore Sr.; of assault charges after shooting her 16-year-old son Jesse Jr. while he was staging a drinking bout in her California home (TIME, Dec. 9); in Santa Barbara, Calif. In absolving his mother, Jesse Jr. testified that the gun went off when he forced it into her hands as the climax of a maudlin "mock death scene...