Word: lanyard
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...reasons. By special permission from Washington she was allowed to make a trip with the Coast Guard Cutter Mojave. She admits the crew were glad to see her go. As the Mojave steamed in to New London observers rioted Authoress Lowell's pink bloomers fluttering from the flag lanyard. Says Authoress Lowell: "Honest, I don't know who put them up there. . . ." The Record editor plastered Boston with pictures of his Gal Reporter, then sent her out in disguise on various rough assignments. She was seldom recognized. Twice she was in danger of having more than her disguise...
...Figuratively. Technically, No. 1 Gunner is that member of the gun squad who pulls the lanyard which ignites the discharge...
Soon it was ascertained that "Benny" is Lieutenant Benjamin F. Staud of Pittsburgh, who pulled the lanyard firing the first U. S. gun to send a shell spinning over Nanking. Commodore Dewey's "Gridley" was Charles Vernon Gridley of Logansport...
Unknown to anyone a shell with a misprimed fuse was inserted into one of the guns. As the unfortunate gunner pulled his lanyard not only the propelling charge but the high explosive shell charge detonated. The gun burst, killing seven men and wounding eleven others, all skilled in the handling of shells and explosives...
...LONE WOLF RETURNS-Louis Joseph Vance-Dutton ($2.00).Michael Lanyard, super-gentleman and super-crook, has faultless evening clothes unruffled by a life of practically continuous crime. Opera-hat in one hand, revolver in the other, spurred on, as the jacket says, by the love of a good woman, he wages horrendous warfare for 367 pages against the underworld henchmen of the bootlegger King of New York. Needless to say the finale finds him triumphant...