Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home for delinquent females. For ensemble acts, the chorines, seated around the room, suddenly pull off their evening gowns and, with very little on, flounce into their routines. After each specialty act, the audience is warned that the next one will be worse. Two husky bruisers, "Machine Gun Butch" Gardina and "Little" Jack Horner, 6 ft. 6, preserve order...
...range on the Crimson basket. The tenacious guarding of the Crimson prevented the Milton quintet from working the ball in near the basket, and even good set shots from out on the floor were few and far between. The harder they tried the wilder they became, and the final gun found them vainly trying to connect from almost mid-court...
...Tokyo last week a Japanese naval spokesman barked: ". . . Placing a gun against a neighbor's door. . . . Nothing but advanced bases for long distance attack upon Japan." In Washington Congressmen, including Idaho's Senator William E. Borah, grumbled their doubts, signaled tough going for the Guam plans...
...Gunner Meyers also had the recorder's instinct. His 28 watercolor drawings, virtually the only pictorial record of the war in California, are a favorite possession of Navy-lover Franklin D. Roosevelt. In one of them, Bombardment of Guaymas (see cut). Artist Meyers showed himself firing the middle gun...
Senator's stalest bit of gossip-A President Pitches a Little Woo-was dated February 28, 1844. It related the old story of President John Tyler's below-decks necking with 20-year-old Julia Gardner when a gun blew up on the new U.S.S. Princeton during a trial run on the Potomac, killing Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer, Julia Gardner's father and two others. Wooer Tyler married the girl a few months later...