Word: ax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fascist newsorgan II Tevere explained editorially last week why, of four recently awarded Nobel Peace Prizes, not one went to an Italian. Wrote the editor: "Fascismo wants justice for itself and others and has no ax to grind under false pretenses of peace. . . . [Referring to the Nobel award of Vice President Dawes]. Some nations unable to bear the burdens of victory fell prey to so-called economists who were nothing more than agents of international finance. The Dawes Plan aims to give the great War the judicial verdict of a bankruptcy trial. Where is there peace in all this...
...Meanwhile, "Jim," famed gobbler from the President's Plymouth (Vt.) farm, escaped the ax for the second time. Last year he was intended to grace the table of a U. S. Thanksgiving Day banquet in London. Queen Alexandra died (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), so the dinner was canceled. This November, the chef of the Savoy said that "Jim" was too tough, despatched him back to a peaceful old age on his Kent farm. ¶The second story and roof of the White House are in need of repairs which may take six months to complete. So next March, after...
Naked. A girl, frail, comes to detest herself, drinks poison, invents ax lovely lie of disappointed love to justify her conduct, clothe her unlovely nature with attractive personality. Doctors come to the rescue. Subsequent arrival of alleged betrayers strips her of the pretty lie, reveals her what she really is. The shame is top cruel. She drinks poison again, dies this time, confessing her naked self...
...Houdini, with his ankles in stocks, is lowered head down into a tank of water, barred inside. An assistant, sometimes in impressive rubber clothing, stands by with an ax while a canopy is lowered over the tank, ready to smash the glass and release the water if Mr. Houdini's life is endangered. After an endless wait for the audience, out comes Mr. Houdini, dripping but quite free. Like about 50% of Mr. Houdini's vaudeville program, the solution of the "Chinese water-cell" escape is clear to any observer of normal alertness. The stocks used are made...
When tamer sections of the country heard last week that, in the rugged state of Washington, where snow-toothed mountains leap skyward and rivers with names like Snake and Yakima coil through forests never scarred by the ringing ax, the Governor had, after ten years of grim waiting, "got" the President of the State University for an old grudge, there was less alarm for the welfare of public education than thrill at the substantiation of legend...