Word: ax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Alton, Ill., famed as the home of Giant Robert Wadlow, was publicized as the theatre of operations of a latter-day Carry Nation, a Mrs. Irene Kite, 32. Last December Mrs. Kite got an ax, went to seven taverns in Alton & environs, grimly reduced their slot machines to broken metal. Last fortnight, with her ax she demolished two more-as she called them-"one-armed bandits.'' Charged with malicious destruction of property, Mrs. Kite was arrested, jailed because she declined to sign a bond...
Real as it was to old Mr. Green, the A.F. of L.'s action seemed strangely unreal. The Mine Workers had already read themselves out, as even the ouster resolution noted. Nor was it explained why of all C.I.O. unions the ax had fallen on the Flat Glass Workers and the Smelters, both relatively unimportant. Logical union to go and the one expected to go was Sidney Hillman's big Amalgamated Clothing Workers. But whatever the strategy may have been one thing was sure: it was not in the interests of labor peace...
Composer Strauss and his librettist laid their scene in a Hellenic back yard, envisioned livestock rooting about the grave of ax-murdered Agamemnon while his murderers' dying screeches float from backstage over the most malignant of operatic orchestrations. Their frenzied, hagridden Elektra, daughter of the slain Agamemnon and instigator of the ghastly revenge that overtakes his killers, demanded a singer of enormous endurance. Mariette Mazarin, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1910, fainted while taking her final curtain calls. The late Ernestine Schumann-Heink, powerful Katrinka of opera singers, left the original cast at Dresden because...
...Ghost of Yankee Doodle (by Sidney Howard; produced by Theatre Guild. Inc.). Though more and more social problem plays invade the Manhattan stage, few are good, none great, for good plays are written by gagmen, poets, wits, fakers but not by ax-grinders. Audiences still like Shaw and Ibsen, not for their lectures on social reform, but for their conceits, paradoxes, taut drama. Last week, in a muddled play that brought a famed U. S. actress out of retirement, this perennial fact was underscored again...
...away from the sleek warm sow and hit him and said, 'You little sookin sin' (son-of-a-bitch), and something about piglets being money and babies a devil's own nuisance." The next thing Ivan remembered was his mother killing his father with an ax. And after that he was made page boy to a nobleman, because he fidgeted shyly when the nobleman's daughter Nina kissed him, he remembered her saying: "You stupid little page boy, if your eyes weren't so blue I should ask my father to kill you and cook...