Word: ax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coin held under the upper lip and a cold key dropped down the back to stop a nosebleed. If those fail, let the blood drip on an ax or knife and bury it in the ground...
...eyebrows are inlaid with bituminous paste." Thus did Dr. Charles Leonard Woolley report one of his latest finds. A popeyed, club-footed little figure of alabaster, 10 in. high, found in a soldier's grave with its head touching the blade of the warrior's bronze ax, it was the first stone burial statuet turned up at Ur of the Chaldees, where Dr. Woolley has long been directing a joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania...
...that saw their rise is more their day than the politicians'. A less ambitious but much abler and more scholarly work than Who Rides America? (TIME, Feb. 26), The Robber Barons will take its place on many a carefully considered library shelf. Though Author Josephson has an ax to grind, its edge is no longer considered socially dangerous. And though, like a good Jew, he keeps his hat on in these sacred precincts, few will hear any bees buzzing within it. ". . . We have tried in so far as possible to write of them [the Robber Barons] without anger...
...valet, van Dyck, he jumped in a little car and drove over. At the foot of the cliffs he looked at his watch, recalled that he had an engagement at the Palais des Sports in Brussels that evening. Then he took a rope, a canvas knapsack and a climbing ax out of the rear of the car and started up the cliffs...
...been Gazetted two weeks in advance. But life at Doom is terribly sleepy. In the ivied main palace and the outlying smaller palace for smaller princes, the family retires early, lies abed until noon, reading, smoking, dozing. Sometimes they listen irritably to the clop, clop of Wilhelm's ax, making Doom's big daily news. Lately rheumatism has kept Wilhelm abed too, denied him the chief pleasure he gets as Germany's richest man (estimated fortune...