Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bolt upright in surprise when War Office Secretary Douglas Hacking announced that His Majesty's Government are abandoning the U. S.-invented Lewis automatic rifle in favor of the "superior" Czechoslovak-invented Bren submachine gun. This will be made in Britain under a patent agreement as with the Lewis gun. For heavier work the Army will continue to use standard British machine guns turned out by Vickers...
...roared a chief. "We routed them with cattle! Our bullets would not pierce the steel monsters, ,o we stampeded our herds against them. In the blinding dust raised by the brave beasts' hoofs our valorous warriors rushed upon the blinded Italian cowards! We shoved our rifles into the gun holes of their tanks-Bang! Bang! Bang!-We took possession of the bullet-proof machines...
...Mount Prospect, Ill., four brash bank bandits roared up to the Mount Prospect State Bank waving a machine gun, ran toward the door, read the sign on the doorhandle, "Out to lunch," raced back to their car and roared away...
...done some portraits when he was a Canadian soldier in a British hospital. Afterward he got a job painting automobiles for the Pontiac experimental department, later for Oklahoma City's Pontiac dealer, Chieftain Motors, Inc. At this work he developed a fine handiness with the Duco spray gun. Finally the heavy-browed, muffin-faced War veteran undertook to use his spray gun to paint pictures...
Results were excellent. Lawrence found he could draw fine lines by holding the gun close to the composition board, get mass effects by using a wide, long-distance spray, achieve shadings by spraying one color over another. His specialties are mist, clouds and transparent effects. For difficult objects such as ships he uses stencils to draw the outlines; faces, houses, bridges, trees he sprays offhand. Top price for a Lawrence so far: $25. Last week the Pontiac publicity department took up Duco Artist Lawrence, as a well-turned favor to the du Ponts who make Duco and own almost...