Word: tins
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...your dear, sick, old papa's tin...
...remark that the most unendurable of tyrants is the petty tyrant. Puffed up by what little authority he has, he struts about as if ready to challenge the universe. To remind effectually such a little tin god-on wheels that he is after all nothing more than a common mortal, is a pleasure that falls to the lot of few. We rejoice, therefore, that the students so energetically rebuked recently the unwarrantable assumption of power by a too officious official. The Directors of the Dining Hall, in branding the Bursar's action in removing one of their official bulletins...
...those things on the Herald, hearing it was to be changed into a retreat for escaped convicts, or those whose offence deserved a more severe sentence than six months in Parker's, interviewed Warmsoup, the janitor at large, who said he had seen it stated in the Tin Pop Gun that Boylston was to be removed to St. Petersburg, and to be fitted up and used as the Czar's palace, as it was considered the only bomb-proof building in the world...
...Tin Pop Gun also stated that it was to be removed in pieces, and that great care had been exerted in selecting men who would clip the blocks so that the chips would fit in with each other. Two men had finally been engaged who had just served a sentence of ten years for clipping coins. These men had been a long time out of practice, and as great care had to be exercised in clipping, they were ordered to clip only one minute at a time and then rest for two, so as to nerve themselves for the next...
...Sidgwick's Composition," each piece being inscribed with appropriate selections from "Schmidt's Metres" and "Curtius's Etymology." He usually carried "the shield of Achilles," but as this was being used by his protege, Hellenic Duo, he carried in its stead an ingeniously constructed defence of jelly and tin combined in certain proportions. Though small and seemingly any thing but robust, it would have been worse than prolepsis - to would have been a terrible anacoluthon - to suppose that his prowess was to be measured by his stature. The fourth of this stout band had the keenest eye and longest head...