Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pounder rapid fire Nordenfeldt, this gun was donated to the Navy in 1898 by a group of patriotic Harvard graduates for use on the auxiliary cruiser "Harvard...
From active service on the dangerous seas of the Spanish-American war to an obscure exhibit and improvised coat rack, might be the thumb-nail history of the swivel gun now located in the basement of the Freshman Union...
...potent Princes in India. A huge, sinister man with a curled black beard, full contemptuous lips and heavy-lidded sensual eyes, he is an able, hard-working administrator, owns 300 automobiles, 42 of them Rolls-Royces, keeps the biggest kennels in India and is president of the All-India Gun Dog Club, has a corps of wives and one of the world's greatest collections of emeralds. When he headed the Indian delegation to the Round Table Conference in London, he strongly supported the India Bill. Since then he has crucially backslid. It seemed likely that he would accept...
From the old fort above Portsmouth dockyard a gun boomed out last week, and the Union Jack broke from the halyards of Admiral Nelson's famed old wooden flagship, the Victory. In the courtyard before the barracks honor guards of bluejackets and Royal Marines snapped to present arms as nine high officers, walking stiffly in the epaulets and cocked hats of their full dress uniforms, entered the building to hold an exciting court martial...
...this fellow he not only hated prunes he wanted to ABOLISH them to crush the very germ out and gee whiz we had a swell machine on the stage with colored lights and the pits came out the end like bullets out of a machine-gun against a copper gong. . . . Bill Glackens* always was the villain, and he comes on with a long mustache covered with furs looking rich as hell. Lucy Moore spurns him 'cause he wants the machine as a prune pitter to make pies but wait a minute you haven't heard anything there...