Word: blunderbuss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox got out his old blunderbuss last week and fired a shot heard round the world. He caused a lot of damage and hurt a lot of people...
...Uncle Dan Tobin mewed a complaint to his old friend Franklin Roosevelt. The Department of Justice whistled up its terriers, shouldered its blunderbuss and tramped into Minneapolis, raided the mousehole at Local 544, seized literature and Trotskyites, scruffed them off to court, accused them all of having wicked and revolutionary ideas...
Unlike his colleague, "Frisky" Merriman, Professor Murdock has refused for several years to act in the annual House play. When he once played a drunken porter who drove the other characters off the stage with a blunderbuss, the audience went wild, and he modestly decided not to tempt fate with another appearance...
...little over one hundred years ago Harriet Martineau, a deaf but gifted English spinster, toured the U. S. equipped with reforming zeal, a philosophical and inquisitive mind, and a huge, old-fashioned ear trumpet which she aimed like a blunderbuss at the people she questioned. She discovered that only seven occupations were open to U. S. women: domestic service, keeping boarders, teaching young children, needlework, weaving, typesetting and bookbinding.* In 1840 two U. S. ladies, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended a World's Anti-Slavery Conference in London, were first barred because of their sex, then permitted...
...Blunderbuss Americanism of Ku Klux Klan and vigilante society stamp is cropping out again--this time in the American Legion. With pages of Hearst and Scripps-Howard publicity, the veterans have begun a campaign to keep Browder and Ford off the ballots in the coming election. Their most recent success was yesterday's decision of the New York Supreme Court barring the Communists from that State's election lists. Already ten other states have done this; and in Pittsburgh forty-three Communist petition circulators, including a Harvard graduate, await trial on charges of fraud. The story in the Smoky City...