Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene reminiscent of frontier days when pioneers lined up on the edge of the Western lands waiting for the gun to send them on their way to stake claims in the new areas, over 100 students jammed the basement corridors of Fogg Art Museum yesterday afternoon. After the doors of the room were opened, the mob rushed in and in less than 10 minutes had wolfed up the entire collection...
Thus each of the three Political Officers on Special Mission has as his chief assignment one of three Indian super-potentates who are entitled to a salute of 21 guns. These are (see cuts, p. 22): first, the venerable dean of the Indian Princes, His Highness the progressive and benign Gaekwar of Baroda; second, the acquisitive and stern "Richest Man in the World," His Exalted Highness, the also progressive and enlightened Nizam of Hyderabad; and third, the weak and pleasure-loving Prince who was the victimized "Mr. A" of a notorious blackmail case in England twelve years ago (TIME...
Everybody who comes out for the team will be allowed to start instead of the usual procedure whereby ton men are elected for the opening gun. For this reason no time trials have been made, and just what the team will do is more or less a matter of conjecture...
...accompanied by the Duke of York, took a train at Euston Station for Balmoral, the Royal Scottish Seat, where he will shoot. To the astonishment of his Scottish deerstalking guide who found a fine stag for His Majesty this week, the King at the crucial moment dropped his gun, whipped out his new German miniature camera, snapped the stag...
...cups and wearing a gaudy bathrobe, staggered toward the Alcázar shouting that he wanted to rescue a Red comrade who had fallen wounded just outside its walls. "All right!" called an Alcázar cadet, "Come and rescue him, so long as you leave us his gun." This bargain the bathrobed rescuer scrupulously kept. On Sept. 5 the calibre of Red guns picking at the Alcázar was up to six inches, but its six-foot walls stood firm. Next day a White plane flew over the fortress, dropped large packages of foodstuffs. Red batteries finally splintered...