Word: ax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before a row of Rembrandt van Rijn's great canvases. If they noticed a little, shabby, middle-aged Dutchman in a loose overcoat standing nervously before Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson, they paid little attention to him. A minute later they did. The little Dutchman had suddenly produced a small ax, was furiously hacking the Anatomy Lesson to ribbons. Quietly he submitted to arrest. At the station house he said he was 46 years old, that his name was Anceaux. Bluntly he refused to give any explanation for his Rembrandt hacking...
...whole Northwest claims Brobdingnagian Lumberjack Paul Bunyan, mightiest of loggers, and his blue ox Babe. Together they dug Puget Sound in less than three weeks, using a glacier as a scoop. Paul Bunyan invented the double-bladed ax so that he could fell a tree on every backswing. His grindstone, which he made himself, "was so large that every time it made a single revolution it was pay day." His achievements and appetites were in proportion...
Much of the nonsense that has been bruited about concerning student, legislative, and general theories as to the solution of the country's most amusing puzzle has been forced to fall before the ax of specific statistics, the result of the two polls, and vote at Albany...