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Word: gunness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virgin Islands, whither President Hoover was to go this week, got a new civil governor last week. The little minesweeper Grebe carried Dr. Paul M. Pearson, like the President a Quaker, into the harbor of St. Thomas while a Marine detachment shot off a 17-gun salute. The black population with its 5% sprinkling of whites massed in Emancipation Park to watch Governor Pearson take the oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hot Sun & Linens | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...need of drinking-water. "We had nothing but an old cannon made in 1820," he said, "but still we had to capture a ship. Finally we sighted a steamer, and sailed over to meet her. We put a long piece of stove piping over the end of our old gun, loaded it, and placed it ready for action. I scattered my men around the ship to yell out orders, because," he said with a smile, "one must have something to scare the enemy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sleepy "Sea-Devil" Reminisces on Capture of Liquor-Laden Steamer--Loaded Stovepipe Masqueraded as Aerial Torpedo | 3/28/1931 | See Source »

...approached the steamer," he continued, "I signalled the order to surrender, but their captain was stubborn.. When we were near enough the man at the top of our mast called out to clear the gun, and we had to fire. The stovepipe went flying through the air, and the captain of the steamer thought it was an aerial torpedo, so he immediately surrendered. When we took possession of the boat we found that its cargo was chiefly wines and Champagne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sleepy "Sea-Devil" Reminisces on Capture of Liquor-Laden Steamer--Loaded Stovepipe Masqueraded as Aerial Torpedo | 3/28/1931 | See Source »

...much like his own Skippy, embattled against the World, Cartoonist Percy Leo Crosby returned via Manhattan to his farm at McLean, Va. in deep disgruntlement at the Press and Powers of Chicago. He had made good on his promise to enter the territory of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone "without gun permit or bodyguard" (TIME, March 2). Sent by a Manhattan organization called the Anti-Gang Rule League he had addressed a Chicago body called the Universal Fellowship Foundation, which sings songs between its dinner courses, including a non-flag-waving version of "The Star Spangled Banner." In a sensational speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...think I don't utterly adore Americans because I merely do, and of course Haddock knows some perfectly blossomy ones, but that's the staggering thing about them, my dear you meet them in London and they seem quite lambs and then they go home to America and gun at each other, well anyhow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Career Mother* | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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