Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...12th Machine Gun Battalion Cambridge, Mass...
...only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when not busy writing verses on small slips of paper bound like a check book. Inside the house every gamut of furnishing is run from monkish asceticism to regal luxury. Describing his amazing do main the will of Poet d'Annunzio continues...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Jacob Steinger, 62, was napping in his son's office when a bandit entered, robbed Son Louis, a doctor, of $71. "Watch out, pop!" shouted Son Louis. Father Jacob awoke, jumped on the bandit, sunk his teeth into the bandit's gun hand, received a bullet in his shoulder. The bandit shrieked, dropped his gun. Then Father Jacob shot him in the back...
...Plate of Gold. When the U. S. special puffed into New Flower, a coal-black band with an olive-skinned conductor blared "The Star Spangled Banner." Amid a 17-gun salute Abyssinia's Crown Prince greeted the beaming U. S. Ambassador and his stern escort, Brig.-General William W. Harts, U. S. A. Smartly escorted by native cavalry the U. S. party clattered off to their hotel, dined there that night on the King of Kings' own gold plate, loaned for the occasion as an especial mark of Royal favor...
...mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies. They assert that President Pearson has in the name of Audubon* opposed a bill in Congress to form permanent bird refuges, favored instead the establishment of interchangeable refuges, which would some years be public shooting grounds. Most biting criticism came in regard to Dr. Pearson's Bulletin...