Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this instance 860 of these prized awards were disposed of in one shot out the gun...
...called at the White House, demanded that President Roosevelt call out a machine gun squad to bombard the Washington Hotel, where he said Mrs. Zioncheck was hiding. For the President, Representative Zioncheck left at the White House three empty beer bottles, a package of mothballs...
...history of intercollegiate sports has any type of competition made such rapid strides toward popularity as outboard motor boat racing. When the starting gun echoes across the James River at Richmond, Va., next June 27 and 28 in the seventh annual National Intercollegiate Outboard Championships, more than forty universities and preparatory institutions will be represented...
...back from India. Miss Matthews, having failed to impress a sleepy producer, poses as Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, startles London by riding down the Mall on a camel. Funniest sequence: Mrs. Smythe-Smythe is asked to demonstrate her shoot ing prowess at an Oriental party given in her honor; the gun, going off in her shaking hands, shatters a vase, knocks the cap off a musician's head, breaks a globe in the chandelier; a colonel of the Sixth Lancers, full of cocktails, duplicates these feats, shoots down the chandelier to boot. Three Wise Guys (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is another...
Carl Akeley was never afraid to get close to his animals. Once he was clawed by a leopard. On another occasion, while studying a herd of elephants, he was suddenly charged by a bull. His gun jammed. Akeley seized the tusks of the oncoming beast, swung himself between them so that they drove into the ground without touching him. With its trunk the elephant smashed the explorer's nose, laid open his cheek, broke several ribs which punctured his lungs, then was distracted by the native boys and gave chase. During a three-month convalescence in a hospital, Akeley...