Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destroyer Kane which was flying the Stars & Stripes at her mainmast and had an enormous U. S. flag spread flat on top of her well-deck awning. All six bombs missed their mark. The Kane fired back at the monoplane nine rounds from her anti-aircraft gun. All nine rounds also went wild. At once the U. S. Press went wild with screaming headlines. From Rapid City, S. Dak., where he received the news, President Roosevelt ordered Secretary of State Hull to "protest." Taking a chance that the monoplane was Spanish, but unable even to guess from which side...
...Minister Alfred Duff Cooper, who was aboard the chartered royal yacht Nahlin, kept vainly radioing ashore that the King was traveling incognito as the Duke of Lancaster. Nevertheless, the next Balkan fortress passed would blaze away a 21-gun royal salute. The Duke of Lancaster delighted during the week to slip off the Nahlin with Mrs. Simpson, she in the stern and he at the oars of a skiff...
...afterwards: "A militiaman with a .32 calibre, nickelplated revolver in his hand stood at my side in a narrow and barricaded street only 180 yards from the Alcazar [fortress of Toledo]...From the battered, smoke-begrimed windows of the magnificent fortress the intermittent bursts of rifle and machine-gun fire, replying to the Radical Government besiegers, seem to have aroused the deepest hatred of the Red elements. ... As we passed the Archbishop's Palace one of my Militia escorts remarked, 'I'd like to hang the Archbishop to a tree!'. . . The rebels are said to have...
...Thank you!" tartly radioed back the Cayuga. When the Almirante Cervera's eight 6-in. guns moved as though taking aim, the cutter unlimbered her one 5-in. gun, her two six-pounders. After this bit of spunk from the minute Cayuga, the stately Almirante Cervera without further interchange steamed out into the Gulf of Gascony and over the horizon...
...Olympic games produces at least one historic race. With considerable justice, track experts called last week's 1,500-metre final the greatest ever run. The field lined up without Wooderson, who had been put out in a preliminary heat. Hitler reached his box just before the gun sounded for the start. While the murmur of the crowd gathered into a huge expectant roar, the field of twelve runners finished the first three laps with Ny leading, Cunningham second, Lovelock third. Then, still a good 300 metres from the finish, Lovelock began his amazing sprint. It carried...