Word: ax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transform the new miracles of science into a new religion. He moved Athens to Iowa, in his imagination, and outlined a Sacred Book. Then he was the Pericles of Provincetown, creating the creative mood in others by his prodigious vitality, sympathies, humor, dreams. He remade his own house with ax, saw and chisel (building in an elevator when his wife's heart ailed) ; made beach sand yield greens; painted, modeled, wrote; created a new national theatre. On the wall of his house he made a fresco showing the evolution of Living Church out of Theatre...
...Hermon Atkins MacNeil, who was born in Massachusetts, has molded his frontierswoman with all the solidity and heavy figure of a muscular St. Gauden's French peasant. She strides forward with breasts uptilted, an ax in her hand, a babe on her hip. It is apparent that she is about to hew something. She won place in the balloting in Manhattan...
...whole indicts marriage on a charge of economical absurdity parading under an alias of natural necessity. For all its whirring the play grinds no ax in the presence of the audience. It succeeds because it stages the battle of Rent v. Romance as essential drama. It is the best U. S. comedy of the season. Rejected by several producers, it is brilliantly directed by Guthrie McClintic in his first venture with the Actors' Theatre. The cast is uniformly excellent...
Many movements have been started from time to time to preserve the tract from the lumberman's ax...
Watch them as they march, O fair Vermont! . . . Coolidge dreaming over a furrow, Balancing a testy problem As he swings the ax over cordwood. He in a man of your mountains, He is a man of your hills. Firm and honest and gentle. Leader and honest citizen- He Is a man of your breeding- Coolidye-man of the mountains