Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city last week for their 17th annual convention. Physically still prime electorally as potent as Labor or the Farmers these veterans of the nation's most ambitious War lustily applied themselves to tour full days of pranks, parades, politics. Time & Place. An activity which jumped the official gun was the scramble by four big U. S. cities for next year's convention site. At stake were civic prestige, acres of publicity and $10,000,000 in Legion spending money. Booster delegations outdid themselves in their efforts to ingratiate themselves with the conventioneers in general, the potent Committee...
...another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife Sophie and his pretty 19-year-old Daughter Carmelia tended a six-acre truck farm behind the house, sold the produce to passing motorists. Now & then Crempa from his window nourished a gun at brash deputy sheriffs. Scotch Plains looked on Crempa as a hero, the impotent sheriff as a buffoon. Last week Sheriff C. Wesley Collins was ready for strong measures...
...Selassie's "domesticated" lions as five of the great beasts escaped, clawed five more sentries in their bolt out of the Palace. Though His Majesty calls himself "Conquering Lion of Judah" and makes special pets of lions, the five Beast Kings were finally mowed down with a machine gun last week by Colonel Mekouria of the Imperial Guard. Next at Addis Ababa came the paganistic maypole ritual with which Ethiopians every year open the dry season, their season of battle. Since this festival is always an orgy of savagery, the swart Emperor at first politely told foreign diplomats they...
...Papal Marquis MacDonald drops in and so does the most famed member of the Cardinal's flock?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was to speak on "Communism or Communionism" at the Cleveland Congress. Last week before departing on the Cardinal's special train, Al Smith publicly took a spray gun in hand, gave the grey stone wall of St. Patrick's Cathedral the first squirt of a chemical preparation which is to clean, harden and preserve...
...contents of the Cup did not disappoint Skipper Konow the next day but the outcome of the race did. Just before the starting gun, when it was too late for Konow to follow suit, Skipper Shields broke out a long-tailed Genoa jib and under it his boat outfooted Norna all the way around a windward and leeward course. Next day, in a light breeze that favored the defender, she won again, this time with four minutes to spare. The last race of the series was sailed on one of those muggy, misty afternoons when...