Word: adzes
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...involvement for the next few months will be with the 1960 presidential campaign, and, as always, he is facing the stump with a two-edged adz. "It's all over but the doubting," says Mort Sahl. "My considered opinion of Nixon versus Kennedy is that neither...
Once there was a riding school in Salzburg, Austria. Max Reinhardt, whose castle-Leopoldskron-overlooks the crenelated streets of the old cathedral town, sent some weeks ago an army of mercenaries against the riding school with billhook, adz, hammer, saw. They tore out the stalls, put in a pipe organ. A choir loft went where the bins had been; the walls, which still preserved the smell of saddle-soap, disinfectant and horse-manure, were transformed into cathedral columns; the tanbark became an amphitheatre for the quality. There, last week, gathered a number of deposed princes, English lords and their ladies...
...Samuel A. Green '51, of Boston, has recently presented to the Peabody Museum a valuable collection of Indian relics. The collection, to which Dr. Green gave a great part of his life, consists of stone implements unearthed in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, Indian adz-blades, axes, scrapers, soapstone vessels, pottery fragments, and the stone points of spears and arrows. Many of the specimens were found near Dr. Green's home at Groton, Mass. Several came from Norton, Concord, Martha's Vineyard, Webster, Cambridge, and from Teverton, R. I. Most of the implements are relics of the Algonquins...
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