Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when Wellman and Poloist Tommy Hitchcock were famed for their trick of flying low over German towns and firing their machine guns at church bells. Said Pershing: "Why, Bill, you old son of a gun, how are you?" Next day Wellman was made an assistant director...
They held the Colón Hotel. Two field guns protected it, and before the guns were soldiers with machine guns and rifles, sweeping the wide avenue from end to end. As the tumult of the whistles died away, two Cadillacs driven by anarchists zigzagged madly up the street toward the guns, making 70 m.p.h., their horns screaming. Like monstrous torpedoes they plowed through the line of soldiers, charged the gun crews, piled into a wall beside them in black, blood-spattered heaps of wreckage. Their drivers were dead. But the guns were silenced...
...Hawker Fury, a Gipsy Dragon - which Malraux had purchased for the Government. There was a twin-engined, high-wing Potez which carried a crew of five and in which Malraux flew as copilot. There was a modern, fast Boeing, useful only as a threat be cause the machine gun could not be synchronized to fire through the propeller. No match for Franco's air force, Malraux's fliers dodged behind clouds, avoided combat as much as possible. Crews were made up of professional fliers hired on contract, volunteers with more enthusiasm than experience, a few skilled men like...
...belated entrant and cheap plater in the world's newest race to rearm, which the Munich deal starting gun set off month ago, is the little Latin American republic of Panama. Disturbed because neighboring Costa Rica suddenly abandoned plans to ratify a pact settling a long-disputed 150-mile border between the two States, Panama's President, Dr. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, last week signed a hurriedly drafted bill providing $1,000,000 for national defense. Hitherto, defense has been an unknown item in Panama's budget. Most of the money will be used to fortify the northern...
...Yale Bowl, Fritz Crisler's Michigan team, which had lost to Minnesota in the last five minutes of play the week before, turned the tables by snatching the game from Ducky Pond's surprisingly scrappy Yale eleven five minutes before the final gun. Thus, with a 15-10-13 victory Michigan avenged the trouncing Yale handed her the last time they...