Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event that a dignitary doesn't merit such an enormous blast as given by a 21-gun salute all that has to be done is to lower the volume on the amplifier and this will give the effect of fewer guns...
...With cheap (gun) powder, according to War Department officials, noise made by salutes (to the President) will be not 'Boom' but 'Swoosh...
...worst wreck was the smashup of his first marriage which came when he had three children. A hard drinker, suspicious, temperamental, French became jealous of a young boarder, accused his wife of infidelity, made the boarder dance at the point of a gun. After the divorce Harry French went through a kind of proletarian purgatory: jobs slipped through his fingers, money went for liquor, strikes got him in trouble, his daughters by his second wife died. Moroseness drove him to unforgivable railroad sins: abandoning his train in the middle of a run; deliberately tying up traffic until three freights...
Because his complaints against the powerful national association marked the first open revolt in its ranks, his address was considered by many as the opening gun in a "medical revolution." Means called on physicians "who believe in popular government" to organize "an effective opposition party" to the "apathetic and inarticulate" association...
...this year and would probably settle now for 65. The Illinois primary, though internal warfare between the State's two Democratic machines may help him to elect six Republican Representatives in addition to the six who represent the party now, will not be much more than a preliminary gun next week. By the end of May there will be 95 Republican candidates in the field and by the end of July, 156. To Joe Martin, the candidate is always more important than the issue, the place more vital than the program, but by last week he and grey-haired...