Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pulsing with the thrill of it, Joe Grew at Lahore "straddled the Big Gun as Kim had done." Then he plunged into the deeper East to write that he loved its "vivid colors and majestic smells." He still does, despite what the East did to him. In the Malay States malaria deafened one ear and nearly killed him. He came home to write a book about tiger hunting, Sport and Travel in the Far East, passionately resolved not to go into Boston banking. For a scion of the aloof Grews the only way to live in the places with magic...
...Last Day began with a 50-gun salute at 9 o'clock in the morning. Whistles blew and bells rang for a full five minutes throughout Chicago. An aerial bomb broke over the Lagoon as the day's 10,000th visitor pushed through the turnstiles. Two bombs signaled the arrival of the 20,000th. Buglers posted on "L" platforms throughout the Loop blew long & loud at high noon. Schools closed. Early in the afternoon a bewildered grey-haired grandmother was whisked off to the Administration Building where, as the 16,000,000th visitor of 1934, she was presented with...
...brought in yesterday on an old chugging, war-time truck, accompanied by two attendants and a sergeant. Before his sudden rise to fame three years ago, the mule was regularly employed in pulling gun carriages about for unappreciative recruits in the artillery, but since going to Harvard his daily routine has been considerably changed...
...eight Cannidy children had to be satisfied with the last shot. They got out the family rabbit gun and pumped a few slugs into the lifeless blackamoor. Then the corpse was taken into Marianna, the county seat, hung up in front of the courthouse. The dirty work of cutting it down went to the county sheriff. National Guardsmen arrived, as usual, too late to do Claude Neal any good...
...starting gun, Minor of Yale took the lead, with Channing second. At the bridge, the two were still in front, Hogan of Princeton following closely, Woodard and Pier at Hogan's shoulder, and Playfair rapidly moving...