Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which nearly 100,000 Brazilians are engaged (TIME. Aug. 8, 15) dragged on and on. At Pittsburgh, Pa. five Cadillac eights were being armor plated by Armstrong Motor Body Co. "for a South American president" who is having the Cadillacs equipped to spray tear gas and machine gun bullets...
...been ill before the championship, had played hard golf to get into the semifinals, and for the first 18 holes of his match, he out-golfed Johnny Goodman. In the afternoon Ouimet was obviously worn out, and Goodman took the match 4 & 2. Despite the driving of Siege Gun Guilford-he almost drove the green on the 349-yard 7th-Ross Somerville won his match...
...teeth, assumed a diabolical leer, and cried: 'Didn't I tell you if you ever went gadding to that saloon again I'd kill you?' That was what poor Joe is supposed to have told his misunderstood wife before she resorted to her little gun to correct his manners...
...motorboat races for the Harmsworth Cup (put up by the late Lord Northcliffe in 1903) has there been such hue & cry as there was last year about Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood's "Yankee trick." Wood in his Miss America IX crossed the starting line ahead of the gun for the second heat, thus prompting his rival, Kaye Don, who had won the first heat with Miss England II, to do likewise. Miss America IX and Miss England II were disqualified. A slower boat than either, driven by Gar Wood's brother George, circled the course...
...start. Rain that began before dawn caused a half-hour postponement. Thousands of boats had gathered in the dark, were anchored around the course. Along Grosse Point's Lake Shore Drive waited 200,000 spectators. At 6:55 a. m. when the five-minute gun sounded an inshore breeze was kicking up whitecaps-hard as riffles of concrete to a boat traveling more than a mile a minute. Kaye Don got off first, 16 seconds after the gun, with Wood, carefully avoiding another "Yankee trick," five seconds behind...