Word: blunderbuss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. A glance at these questions reveals that man knows less of making peace than anything else. The merest numskull can shout a war cry, fire a blunderbuss. The language of peace, seldom heard, must be studied and conned over before disarmament can even be discussed...
...Churchmen. The charm of stylistic finesse, literary taste, and epigrammatic terseness can best be appreciated in the books of A Gentleman With a Duster when we compare them with the turgid, club-footed fumbling of the author of the pitiful Mirrors of Washington. There is a difference between a blunderbuss and a Lewis...