Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third class schedule includes riding, infantry and artillery drill, signal communications, and the firing of rifle, pistol, and machine gun. The yearlings enthusiastically burn up thousands of rounds of cartridges and turn in some remarkable records. Last year but two men out of 356 failed to qualify with the service rifle. As a climax to the camp period a three day maneuver is carried out by both classes...
...band, returning to its post, halts, "Sounds Off" again, and, because this is Sunday, breaks into "Nearer My God to Thee" so that all and sundry may realize this is the Sabbath. The buglers sound "Retreat" and the sunset gun barks. Kaydets snicker as the cits jump at the report. The battalion come to attention and then to "Present Arms" as the National Anthem is played. Then the adjutant publishes the orders, officers and guidons go front and center and the Corps passes in review...
Though the list included Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, George ("Bugs") Moran, Joseph ("Joe") Aiello and other Grade A gangsters, only eight minor figures were rounded up by police during the past fortnight. They were: Terrence ("Terrible Terry") Druggan, ill in a hospital; Danny Stanton, jailed because his gun was said to prove ballistically that he had shot swart Jack Zuta; Caponeman Jack Guzick, first arrested by Federal agents for income-tax evasion; James (''Fur") Sammons, robber, killer, ex-convict; Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell, Capone beer salesman; ("Dago") Lawrence Mangano, west side gambling-house keeper; George ("Red") Barker...
...that many of the racers shipped water. There were 22 racers out the last day, but the winners in points for the series seemed pretty sure to be Temple IV of California or Peggy Wee of Long Island. At the start Peggy Wee was over the line before the gun and had to clear off the course and come round again. Nine boats were around the first mark ahead of her, but somehow Arthur Knapp Jr. and Newell P. Weed worked Peggy Wee through them and slipped past Temple IV on the last windward leg, to come in fourth?winning...
...refuse, the President of Greece said I must accept as a patriotic duty. Three days later I found myself in Paris: I won the European contest, and of course had then to go through with it and go to Rio." L. Rutherford Stuyvesant, U. S. Vice Consul at Calcutta, gunning in Jalaswar Jungle, met a large bear, fired at close range, failed to kill. The wounded beast charged him, knocked him down, cuffed and bit him until Stuyvesant beat on its nose with his gun butt. Then (the Associated Press said) "the animal, in considerable pain, ran away." Harry Ford...