Word: ax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lizzie Borden took an ax...
...second quarter with a one-hand circus grab on the goal line and after that his teammates snaggled every pass they saw, not caring which Italian boy was throwing them. To California: 20 points, the Pacific Coast's traditional Big Game, plus a special trophy, the famed Stanford Ax. To Stanford...
...Virginia for four years with a brilliant record, was graduated from Harvard last June magna cum laude. So Proudly We Hail, Mr. Shapiro's first attempt at professional playwriting, lacks craftsmanship, balance and subtlety. As a propaganda piece, however, it is as brutally effective as a meat-ax, contains enough obviously first-hand documentation, along with its exaggerations, to deter hundreds of parents from sending their sons to schools which they may suspect of resembling Stone Ridge Military Academy ("You Give Us The Boy, We Return...
...Camden, N. J., Watchman John Bonitatibus came home to find a new billboard on the lot which his five children used as a playground. Irate John Bonitatibus smashed the billboard with an ax, hung U. S. flags on the wreckage, posted a placard: COMMISSIONERS- WE WANT A CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND HERE, NOT BILLBOARDS. Next day, armed with a petition signed by the parents of 200 neighboring moppets, John Bonitatibus marched to City Hall, got the billboard removed...
...AX OARSMAn FOR FOUR YEARS UNDER HIS DIRECTION AND A FRIEND FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE, I WANT TO BRAND THAT YARN AS APOCRYPHAL, UNTRUE, UNCHARACTERISTIC AND HIGHLY DEFAMATORY TO A DISTINGUISHED MASTER OF GOOD ENGLISH, A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT-ELECT AND A GENTLEMAN, DOCTOR SPAETH NEVER LACKED FOR FAR MORE EFFECTIV WORDS THAN THE DREGS OF SPEECH WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF TWO-HUNDRED-WORD ILLITERATES. THE STUFF JUST DOES NOT RING TRUE. STEWART M. ROBINSON...