Word: blunderbussing
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...efficient soldier. Since the announcement of new plans to mechanize the British cavalry, troopers have been scratching their heads over engine diagrams, the intricacies of caterpillar treads and short-wave wireless. Even the infantry has had to struggle with such new devices as the Boys rifle, a ponderous blunderbuss that weighs 35 lb., fires a 5-in. cartridge through the steel walls of tanks...
After the next war, let's hope the conquerors will practice the lessons of the last. Imagine the silliness of it anyway, when you've just beaten a homicidal maniac who hates you, letting him loose to find a new blunderbuss. Any man with the brains God gave the glow-worm would know enough to disarm him completely, throw him naked into a jail, and keep a close watch on the implements coming to him with his necessaries of life...
High spots in the performance were the sterling blunderbuss-shooting of Mr. Murdock and the valiant actions of Mr. Jackson, whose mute eloquence brought the audience to its feet in wild acclaim...
...enforced codes. The farm bloc, temporarily placated by the burnt offering of a devaluated dollar, can be expected to provide a great deal of clamor and possibly some force if the latest monetary scheme does not raise its commodity prices. And off in his corner, cleaning his battered blunderbuss and muttering imprecations about broken campaign pledges, sits little G.O.P., eager for the January fray. Indicative of the changing, wavering attitude of the public is yesterday's Herald-Tribune front page "news-story" which analyzes the disconcerting present and the uncertain future of the NRA, thus laying down a gangplank from...
Last week the Senate raised its great blunderbuss of investigation and prepared to fire a $50,000 broadside upon the buying and selling practices of all U. S. stock exchanges. Broad though the range of the inquiry was, most Senators realized that its real target was short sales on the New York Stock Exchange. From President Hoover down, many a U. S. citizen has long believed that such sales maliciously depress the market, add to hard times...