Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reach a climax with the open ing of the Jubilee, a series of full page layouts of war pictures appeared in the Star every day for three weeks. They showed soldiers dying horribly of gas; soldiers of many nations fighting or drilling with the same make of machine gun (Maxim); preparations in Paris, Berlin and Tokyo to protect civilians against gas attacks...
...moment, not from the Germans-but from the British Navy! . . . Mr. Whitlock was working earnestly, in co-operation with the German authorities and a Belgian committee, to rescue starving Belgium from the British blockade." In 1915 a book called Defenceless America, by the brother of Sir Hiram Maxim, machine-gun inventor, raised goosebumps on thousands of U. S. necks. It was made into a cinema called The Battle Cry of Peace...
Bold, black-bearded Great Exile Professor Alexander Tsankoff staged a successful machine-gun coup in 1923 and was virtual master of Bulgaria as Premier for the next five years. His companion in banishment, Lieut.-Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff, came in as Premier last May at the head of an Army officers' junta that promised to end political bickerings in Bulgaria. Last week these two had hardly set out before Gueorguieff adherents pulled so many potent wires that the Cabinet of Premier General Petko Zlateff collapsed, resigned. The Army clique was hopelessly split. Result: Little Tsar Boris found himself again...
...finished, Artist Hoover went off to the squids fishermen and olive growers of Ibiza. There she stayed two years, painting all day, playing bridge and drinking local absinthe at night. When she returned to Madrid last October, a revolution was going full blast, the streets were raked with machine-gun fire and the conservatives had locked up her old teacher as a Socialist conspirator, threatened to keep him in jail for 19 years (TIME, Dec. 3). The effect was about the same as if the Republicans should seize the Washington Government, throw Artist Bruce into a cell as a dangerous...
...Harmony" is a mixture between a gangster pictures, a behind-the-scenes musical cofedy, and a bus romance. It has all the thrills known to conventional movie-land,--speeding busses, motor-cycles and sirens, gangster hideouts, a misunderstood hero, gauze covered females, crooning erotic paw dances, luxurious bars, a gun-battle, tough humor, raucous humor, dirty humor, love and kisses. The packed theatre drooled in ecstasy...