Word: blunderbussing
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...Alfred Isaacs, shoved into power by Australia's Labor Prime Minister James Henry Scullin (TIME, Dec. 15). This appointment so roiled George V that he altered the traditional "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve . . ." to "The King, on the recommendation of Scullin, has appointed . . ." No such blunderbuss phrase appeared last week: His Majesty was most graciously pleased to approve Lord Willing don. It was an open secret that the choice of Viscount Willingdon was King George's own, that he prided himself in the knowledge that by so doing he had unsnarled a nice political tangle...
...India House -mere symbols both. Up to last week the appointment of a Governor General for one of the Dominions had always been announced by His Majesty's Government in Great Britain, had always contained the hallowed words: "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve. . . ." Like a blunderbuss fired from Australia House came last week this blunt phrase: "The King, on the recommendation of Scullin, has appointed. . . ." Sir Isaac Isaacs. Even before Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of Australia set out for London to attend the Imperial Conference (TiME, Oct. 13, et seq.), he promised Sir Isaac Alfred...
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...
...LLOYD, Secretary.H. P. C.- Will the gentleman who took as a souvenir the blunderbuss used in the Christmas theatricals please return the same to 48 Matthews. By so doing he will save the club much inconvenience and expense...