Word: popguns
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When wound up, Les Moineaux Avares pick at pebbles with uncanny realism. Massacre! is a re-named old-fashioned toy-merely a cardboard shooting gallery in which figures of men and women may be laid low with a popgun. For some occult reason there seems to be selling magic in the new name...
...naval architects to overcome the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. Within her dagger-thin hull will pulse engines of 23,000 horsepower. Slicing the waves at 36.8 miles an hour (32 knots), equipped with double torpedo tubes, the new ship is a formidable naval weapon despite her popgun batteries of 8.8-centime-tre (3.4-inch) quick firers...
...told them: ' You ladies will learn what we men have already learned, that the most overrated institution in America is the ballot box. . . . The home, the church, the theatre and the press as institutions for disseminating ideas are like 42-centimeter guns beside a popgun when compared to the ballot...
...strange enough too, to see, an honorable gentleman leaning back in his tilted chair with his legs on the desk before him, shaping a convenient plug with his penknife, and when it is quite ready for use, shooting his old one from his mouth, as from a popgun, and clapping the new one in its place. I was surprised to observe that even steady old chewers of great experience are not always good marksmen...