Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard band increased in splendor and magnificence Saturday as it displayed new concoctions before the 45,000 at the Army game. For the benefit of the West Pointers, a human bullet was shot out of a huge animate machine gun with revolving drum...
When her father left one day to visit his tobacco farm, Lulu Belle slipped Jim the keys. He let out his pal, Bill ("Bad Eye") Wilson. They grabbed Jailer Kimel's gun from his office, commandeered a taxi, bound and gagged the driver, Wilkes Swing, and drove to Godwin's home in High Point for clothes and another gun...
...like to have her daughter escorted by a direct descendant of John Jacob Astor. Some of the data has a really whimsical touch . . . the Cuban boy at Princeton with "Distinguished characteristic of mother's family-nobility" . . . the Harvard man who claims "Profession most traditional in mother's family-advertising" . . . "gun manufacturing" and "coal operator" are listed as the professions most traditional in two Yale men's families. The Boston Herald-Traveler
...Artillery firing was brought to a close by a demonstration of the latest model 75 mm gun, with which Battery B, 7th F.A., the parent battery of the R.O.T.C., was equipped. During the firing period all men had an opportunity to fire at least three problems. Allen E. Puckett '39 was awarded the Edward Holyoke Osgood Medal for that Harvard R.O.T.C. student who excelled in Conduct of Fire. He was closely pressed by Frank E. Southard, F. S. White, E. R. Clarke and I. Tucker Burr...
Landing in Manhattan John Fitzgerald Kennedy, son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, brought a gift to President Roosevelt: a harpoon gun...