Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner, he found young Quakers picketing the street, bearing placards such as: WAR IS ALWAYS WRONG and ARMAMENTS REPRESENT DEATH TO YOU BUT DIVIDENDS TO THE PRIVATE FIRMS. When, in Reyburn Plaza, Mr. Dern made a brief speech and played at aiming a 3-in. anti-aircraft gun, Quakers distributed anti-war leaflets to the crowd while a chartered airplane overhead rained down more printed matter. Few days later, after the Secretary of War was well out of the way, the Quakers held a meeting of their own in the Plaza, exhibited a model of a dinosaur ("All Armor Plate...
...public party purge. Four times has the Administration cleaned up relief muddles- in Massachusetts, Georgia, North Dakota, Oklahoma-before the political Opposition could start fulminating. Last week, on "evidence concerning corrupt political interference with relief in the State of Ohio," the President again beat scandalmongers to the gun by ordering FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins to remove Democratic Governor Martin Luther Davey from all connection with Federal Relief Administration...
...classroom I learn grammar, but such expressions as "nerts," "baloney," "horse feathers" and "son of the gun" were contributed by my American boy friends...
...crushing" the revolution but as time passed without a rebel victory the morale and the chances of the Venizelos cause slowly faded. At week's end the weather cleared and the Government launched an actual offensive across the Struma, with heavy artillery, cavalry, infantry and machine gun units. The rebels suddenly seemed fatally short of ammunition and the Government's planes bothered them badly. Under a rain of bombs and propaganda leaflets, Macedonian spunk rapidly crumpled...
After the war, the gun was presented to the Union, and has stood guard by the entrance to the billiard room ever since...