Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...listed": Jean Bronstein, Dave Walbo and Ray Peters. Trooper Larry O'Toole of Jersey City said he was wounded not in action but emerging from a store, his tunic stuffed with tomatoes and a bottle of wine. Boasted Manhattan Negro Walter Garland, commander of a Leftist machine gun company: "We took three towns in a row without stopping to rest, fighting like demons...
...Opening gun of the late Mr. Bok's campaign was fired in March 1906, in an editorial headed "Frankness With Children." Said he: "The tenderest parent sometimes grows tired of the eager eyes and hungry brain of his child. The poor little traveler is bewildered by the strange world in which he suddenly finds himself. . . . For absolute filth, go and listen to the talks of the boys and girls during recess in our schools. Some of these little ones belong to refined Christian families. Their parents would shrink in horror at the thought of unveiling the sacred mysteries...
...Lang) and her daughter Priscilla (Shirley Temple) got there. Tribal Chief Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero) had been arrested smuggling arms through the pass, and the hill people were coming down to get him back. Priscilla liked it in the station, where Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal to distract attention from a detail which...
...victims did not help to relax the nerves any. The first attack came at night, in a grey light that made a submarine invisible except for a dim white ripple. The torpedoes missed by a hair. When an oily patch showed where the submarine had been, the five-inch guns on the Baton Rouge stopped firing. The captain's big grin marked the hits. Occasionally they picked up a few survivors from a torpedoed boat ahead. Armed guard duty, which consisted of operating a gun aboard the freighters themselves, was the riskiest job of all. So Rex transferred...
Skipper Jim Lovett (Warner Baxter) decided to quit slaving after the Sunday morning when, on his way to get drunk, he met Nancy (Elizabeth Allan) on her way to church. Failing to share his reformation, the Slave Ship crew shanghaied him and his bride, obtained the keys to the gun locker, pointed the bark's nose for the Congo. Thompson (Wallace Beery), the wily mate, planned to leave Captain Lovett on the beach after the cargo was aboard, but Lovett climbed aboard from a native proa. Annexing the arsenal, Lovett and Nancy, helped by the cabin boy (Mickey Rooney...