Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana and walked down the street in his cutaway and high hat-nonchalantly as became a diplomat. He proceeded straight to the door of the Presidential Palace where, as he arrived, a band on the terrace played "The Star Spangled Banner" and "El himno bayames." Marching inside while the guns of Cabanas Fortress across the bay boomed a 21-gun salute, he received profuse protestations of pleasure from President Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. There was bravery in Ambassador Caffery's walk from the Embassy because he had no certainty that he would reach the palace alive...
...House restaurant last week Richard Lawson and Walter Roberts engaged in argument. Like shells from a field gun a bottle of catsup and a bottle of Worcestershire sauce catapulted across the room and burst. Three glasses and a finger bowl were shattered by the explosion. Then Headwaiter Roberts discharged Waiter Lawson...
...battleships of 1905, bristling with pillbox turrets, it was impossible to depress gun muzzles sufficiently to beat off this new attack. A few coffee-grinding Catling guns were all the Russians had to oppose the little sea hornets. By next noon four battleships, seven cruisers, five destroyers and five auxiliary ships were at the bottom of the Japan Sea. Four more battleships and two hospital ships had surrendered. Four thousand Russians were killed or drowned and 7,000 more surrendered. Japanese losses were three torpedo boats, 116 killed, 538 wounded. The Battle of Tsushima Straits decided the naval mastery...
...broadcastin' our spiritual exercises. . . . Remember, words are the spirit, the very spirit of life. No matter how big and strong the body may be physically, it's dead without the spirit. When a man pulls a gun and says 'Run,' the word 'run' with the knowledge of the gun does you a spiritual wrong. For, as a man thinketh, so is he. . . . Whatsoever is true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report-If there by any virtue, think on these things...
...Hamden, Conn., circus performance, Alda May Cole, 19, stood balancing three lighted candles on her head in the centre ring. Across from her, Marksman Lou Morphy lifted his gun. Crack, crack, crack, out went the candles, one, two. three. Alda May Cole bowed to the applause, walked steadily out of the tent, collapsed in the passageway. Slug No. 1 had split as it shot out of the gun. Half of it had snuffed out candle No. i. The other half plunked into Alda May Cole's face, an eighth of an inch from her right...