Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North China had given notice of daytime maneuvers near Peiping. Savage shooting began at night and, according to a Chinese official communique: "The Japanese fired first after certain persons had fired on Japanese emerging from Fengtai barracks for night maneuvers around Wanpinhsien and Lu-kouchiao." These two centres soon saw pitched battles in which 16 Japanese and some 200 Chinese were killed, with Japanese artillery plunking poorly aimed shells, one of which landed in the empty bed of a local Chinese magistrate. Increasingly sharp fighting made it no clearer who were the "certain persons" who opened fire before the Japanese...
...like Bull Moore. He was the best pool player in town. He could throw a baseball so fast it became invisible. He pitched for the St. Patrick's Church team and went south for a tryout with the Boston Braves. A big-time football coach saw him and sent him to preparatory school. Golf was Bull Moore's forte. His brother Harold, a church organist, was also a golf professional and had taught Bull the game. Bull would drive a ball out of sight and make any kind of trick shot with any kind of club. His short...
Among the exemplary things about Bull Moore was his response to drink and women. Bull was a man's man. Doubtless, he could have held more liquor without showing it than anyone else in town, but no one ever saw him drunk. He could have made a conquest of almost any girl he wanted but his dealings with the other sex were notable for old-fashioned chivalry. Bull would not even let his friends boast about their conquests in his presence...
...Rear-seat riding in an automobile gives me the fidgets. And while I was voicing my opinions to a companion in the rear seat of an auto the other night, we collided with another car ahead of us-at a rate of about 35 m.p.h. ... I saw what was coming and braced myself. My companion in the back seat had not been watching, and he bounced forward and banged his nose on the back of the front seat. The passenger alongside the driver bumped his forehead on the windshield. Then blood and all the usual details. An ordinary aviation safety...
...Steel Corp. executive who made news copy in the last Presidential campaign because he is an uncle of Alfred Mossman Landon. Young James went to Ohio State, studied chemistry and geology, taught swimming, worked in the oil fields of Texas, California, Pennsylvania. New York, South America. In Michigan he saw some experiments with acid, decided to move east and hang out his own shingle as a well doctor...