Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the 1930 classes of Italian and French cruisers are completed, neither nation will build destroyers of more than 6.1-inch gun calibre, but France and Italy will each build two "Pocket Dread-naughts" of 23,333 tons, copying in this respect the famed German Ersatz Preussen (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928), hailed by naval experts as the world's most efficient small war boat...
Although he remained in Austin and had no chance to use his new "Sunday gun"-a $300 six-shooter presented him by the citizens of Laredo-no one was prouder of this biggest Ranger roundup in two years than William ("Bill") Sterling. Last month he became commandant of the Rangers when Governor Ross D. Sterling (no kin) appointed him Adjutant General of the State. A lean six-footer, he is a graduate of Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College, was a lieutenant of infantry during the War but was kept from going overseas by powder-burned eyes. He has been a Ranger...
Raging lions snuff at prostrate heroines, or are driven from their kill by a famine-stricken cast. Serpents lazily uncoil from a most tropical-looking tree, and plop down a scant foot or so behind the ragged hero. Horn and his gun-bearer, Renchero, swing deftly over a pool alive with crocodiles, on a dangling vine. "And through this mighty drama of a primitive world runs the beautiful love romance of a boy and girl that grips the heart"--so runs the come-hither phraseology of the advertising manager...
When 60 armed civilians and soldiers stormed the Presidential Palace in Lima it was only a short day's work for Col. Cerro's troops to scatter them with machine gun fire, chase them eight miles down to the Port of Callao (where T. R. H. were saluted fortnight ago) and end the No. 1 revolution there, after some 60 persons had been slain (one of them Reginald A. Skidmore of the Grace Line, killed by a stray bullet while playing billiards at the Strangers' Club...
Comrades of 1918 (Nero). Although the German sound equipment for recording battle-noises is so inadequate that the scream of shells has little relationship to their explosions and machine gun fire resembles the noises made by cabaret rattles, this is one of the best directed and most gruesome of War pictures. High credit should go to Director G. W. Pabst who with small resources made a picture that in every technical respect except sound can compete with the best Hollywood product. U. S. spectators can understand it in spite of the German dialog, for the action of trench-warfare...