Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There on the promenade, with the St. Lawrence spread out below and the green hills beyond, 5,000 Canadians burst into French and English cheers as the Presidential party appeared. From the heights of the Citadel boomed a 21-gun salute...
...planes were Italian Savoia-Marchetti bombers with their identification marks carefully painted out. Each was jammed with cases of machine guns, ammunition, hand grenades, machine-gun belts. Near one of the planes were found several knapsacks containing the khaki uniforms of Spain's Foreign Legion. The eleven aviators arrested by the French were all in civilian clothes, carried civilian Italian passports, but in their pockets were receipted pay checks giving their names and rank in the Italian Air Force. Later reports showed that the planes were part of a flight of 21 that had tried to fly non-stop...
...Surprise of the week was verification of the astounding story that when Spain's devious José Maria Gil Robles, Catholic reactionary, was Minister of War ten months ago, he and Fascist Generals Franco and Mola prepared for the present civil war by digging secret gun emplacements all along the Guadarrama ridge. Fortunately for Spain's Leftist Government, loyal officers knew where most of them were...
Lawyers discovered on the statute books a law which makes it a crime punishable by flogging and 20 years imprisonment to aim a gun at the Sovereign. It dates from the last of five attempts (in 1882) to assassinate Good Queen Victoria, has never been enforced. Wiseacres wagered that there would be no trial, that Herbalist McMahon would be slipped quietly into an asylum...
Wolfe's first cinema assignment is to discover who, by means of a gun concealed in a golf club, with a trigger released by impact with the ball, killed jolly old Professor Barstow and why. By the time he succeeds, the picture has unraveled the grim and interwoven biographies of an irascible golf professional, an Argentine olive oil dealer, a lady idol worshipper and a young man with an Oedipus complex. It has also indicated that its hero, less dashing than Philo Vance and less whimsical than Charlie Chan, but more mercenary than either, will be a highly acceptable...