Word: gunners
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...before. In 1910, shortly after he assumed virtual leadership, he accepted for the societies a $25,000 gift from Winchester Arms Co. Horrified bird lovers made him give it back. Since then subdued criticisms have been heard from time to time, occasional horrified ejaculations that a man with a gunner's heart had crept into the Society, was perverting its policies. Last year a pamphlet signed by the late W. DeWitt Miller, vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society, berated large bird societies for neglecting their duties. These charges, to which President Pearson turned an indifferent...
Roaring over Buenos Aires a mysterious plane rained down Communist leaflets? the only Red phase of the entire disturbance. Promptly an Uriburu pursuit plane whirred from its hangar, prepared to chase the Reds, cracked up on the flying field, spilled out pilot and gunner mortally wounded...
...even as low as 117 out of 200-scores that any one of the competitors would have scorned at his own club on a still day. In the preliminary handicap J. H. R. Kretschman, a Canadian, won with 195 after shooting off a tie with a Philadelphian and a gunner from New Haven. Next day, however, Kretschman was not important. Lanky Stevenson M. Crothers from Chestnut Hill, Pa., hung his coat on a nail, put on an old sweater and a white eyeshade, raised his single-barrelled, closed-bore Daley gun and giving a gruff bark that meant "Pull!" each...
...soldier fashion the President picked an admirable but not outstanding personage, Dr. Heinrich Bruning, bachelor, scholar, onetime machine gunner (Iron Cross and wounds), who just three months ago forged up from a quite dim obscurity in the Catholic Centre Party to become its leader...
...Figuratively. Technically, No. 1 Gunner is that member of the gun squad who pulls the lanyard which ignites the discharge...