Word: ax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge's chief advisers," expressed its dislike of unofficial discussion of the debt situation, and urged prominent tourists to hold their peace. That part of the press which is friendly to the Administration echoed the sentiments and flayed the talking tourists as "meddlers," "muddlers," "hand-kissers," "knee-crookers," "ax-grinders," "sycophants." The result was that, a few days later, the unofficial spokesman, speaking "informally but authoritatively," declared that the U. S. meant just what it said when it invited foreign powers (TIME, May 25) to arrange to pay up their debts. He went on to say-lest foreigners take...
...house, when it was building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was in buildinq."-1 Kings...
...Welcome, sir! I hope 1 see you well, sir," says the affable executioner to the condemned man as he mounts the scaffold. At the same time Chonheads runs his anger approvingly over the keen edge of his ax...
...bishop of the Re-formed Episcopal Church and entitled Current Encyclopedia, later The World Today, was acquired by Publisher Hearst in 1911. In 1912, it became Hearst's International, still devoted to current events but with an admixture of fiction. The current events element was gradually replaced by ax-grinding articles?now for Matrimony, now for Health, now for the White Collar Ideal, now for Judaism. In this it took over the crusading functions of the Cosmopolitan (founded in 1886 and bought by Mr. Hearst in 1905), which in 1912 became purely a fiction magazine. Evidently the crusading was felt...
...only hope. Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting and merriment, to the wedding-guests too busy with laughter and drinking to heed him. Terrified at thought of the hospital, he took matters into his own hands. He ground an ax to a sharp edge, placed his leg on the threshold, chopped twice, severed it at the knee...