Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bombardier Benott was last to be medaled. For 20 years he has been firing 21-gun salutes. As soon as he decently could, after being medaled, Bombardier Benott marched round to the front of the Palace, made ready to blaze away once more. Hundreds of eyes peered through the iron railing, focused on the small door at the right of the Palace, on the long red plush carpet leading to the dark maroon (almost black) Royal Daimler. Briskly, in an impeccable grey topper, King George walked the carpet, squiring Queen Mary amid lusty cheers. He was going to cele- brate...
Chiang countered Yen's boast by announcing that his airplanes were wiping out the enemy wholesale, though admitting their superiority in machine gun fire. All this, of course, was merely overture. As a general thing Chinese wars last until stopped by the winter rains or some particularly monumental bribe...
...Guns. Senator Hale se cured from the Navy wooden models of 6-in. guns and 8-in. guns as used on cruisers, set them up in his office to outline his objections to the treaty. Carefully he explained that a 6-in. gun would fire a 105-lb. shell 10 miles; an 8-in. gun a 260-lb. shell 18 miles. What seemed to displease him most was that, whereas under the 1929 naval plan 23 cruisers of 10,000 tons each, armed with 8-in. guns, would have been constructed, under the treaty this force would...
...with a Philadelphian and a gunner from New Haven. Next day, however, Kretschman was not important. Lanky Stevenson M. Crothers from Chestnut Hill, Pa., hung his coat on a nail, put on an old sweater and a white eyeshade, raised his single-barrelled, closed-bore Daley gun and giving a gruff bark that meant "Pull!" each time he was ready, knocked the skimming little discs to pieces with dismaying regularity...
...home, Stevenson M. Crothers is a country squire, farms his land, keeps a pair of pointers for bird-shooting in the fall. He shoots clay birds on Saturdays, all the year round, at clubs in his district -Quaker City, North End Gun, Rocksburgh. He won the national championship in 1925, 1927, 1928, and he won it again last week with 193 hits out of 200-wonderful shooting in that kind of a wind, or no wind, for that matter. His father, Stevenson Crothers, shot too. So did his sister, Alice Crothers, who finished highest (161) of the three women entered...