Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumors circulating about last night, fixed the blame on a group of Graduate School students, who recently successfully managed to remove a machine gun and a ten-foot R.O.T.C. banner at a recent ball, while others attributed the theft to Yale men seeking revenge for the famous Yale fence robbery, or a local organization seeking to enlarge its bell equipment...
Sportsmen rallied to his aid. It was not likely he would live long and some of his characteristics should be preserved for posterity. The Martha's Vineyard Rod & Gun Club voted to find him a mate, appealed to Professor Gross. Dr. Gross had recently returned from Wisconsin where he studied prairie chickens (Tympanuchus americanus), found them so similar to the heath-hen (Tympanuchus cupido) that no eye less sharp than an expert's could tell one from the other. Both are pinnated grouse. A prairie chicken, thought Dr. Gross, would make the heath-cock a very good mate...
...these two legitimately hysterical parents unfortunately reverted to their primitive, elemental desires and relegated civilization's sociological structure to the trash heap as unusable lumber and connived, catered, kowtowed, begged, pleaded, and promised anything & everything within and beyond their means to the so-called underworld, if the cowardly machine-gun order returned their child, they trampled respect for law & order into the dust; exposed other citizens' children to the possibility of kidnapping and ridiculed American police protection in the eyes of the world. In the greatest crisis of their lives they failed...
...preserve the peace of my homestead. I'll hold this White House, my ancestral home, in spite of hell & high water, and I'll do it in the manner of any son of the Old West. If the officers come for me they'd better bring a machine gun...
...justify himself to Lydersen, his chief antagonist, who has by now become a postmaster. On the evening when post office receipts are reckoned up, Berger calls at Lydersen's office. After a heated discussion in which Lydersen stoutly maintains his moral superiority over Berger, Berger suddenly draws a gun. Staring at death, Lydersen hands over the post office money. Then, smiling, Berger puts down the money and the unloaded gun. Vindicated at least in Lydersen's eyes, Berger returns happily to his wife, who, in naive admiration, wonders where he got the courage to play so desperate...