Word: ax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sitting in the woods and talking to some mice. He preferred ash trees to live under and Joseph knew it. Joseph would never have cut down an ash if St. John Deakan had not come to dinner one night and brought his daughter. She made Joseph pick up his ax and begin to chop through the thick dark trunk of an ash tree she wanted for lumber...
...haired, broad-freckled son of a Manhattan banker spends many of his young days on his father's commodious estate in the north woods. He is much with guides and backwoods farmers?Scotsmen, French-Canadians, half-breed Indians. He grows up a strong young adept at their life with ax, rod, gun, canoe. Their children are his playmates and he, after attending Princeton University, is not convinced that some dainty creature from Philadelphia or New York would make him as good a wife as Lena Wilson, the stocky daughter of his mother's north-woods cook...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is as pink and paunchy as Henry VIII. Finally, few would have been so hardy as to gaze upon the strong, burly figure of Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead and then remark that if he would only carry an ax instead of a Malacca cane he would make a capital headsman...
...King Henry VIII who strolled about, ready to buss shy maids, was, of course, Chancellor Churchill. The scowling headsman, shouldering a "bloody" ax was the Earl of Birkenhead. Of the two simpering "little boys" in Eton jackets, turned down collars, pink bow ties and white socks, one was Prince George, 24, the other Edward of Wales...
Recently the box came into the possession of the Psychical Research Society, a rather playful group of scientists including Sir Oliver Lodge. Respectful, they used no crowbar or ax. Resourceful, they peeked last week into the box with the aid of an Xray. Amused, they saw only the outlines of a horse pistol, dice box, skull, scissors, bead bag, pins, coins, rings, and what is believed to be the roll of a manuscript...