Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cottier's, the Saturday Evening Post. No superlatives were too strong for his variegated heroes and heroines. Walt Disney's Dumbo he termed "the best achievement yet reached in the Seven Arts since the first white man landed on this continent." The story of Lizzie Borden, the ax-murderess, was "on the plane with Shakespeare and Sophocles" (later, Woollcott horrified the Borden Milk Co. by urging them to give the name Lizzie to an offspring of their prizewinning cow at the World's Fair). Woollcott believed that Harpo Marx had the makings of a great poet...
Nelson, who can play championship golf with an ax handle when he's hot, came to life next day in the match play battle at New Jersey's Essex County course. He sank a 35-footer, outdrove hard-slamming Sambo. Snead's putting meanwhile went from poor to punk, ended in a nose dive on the water-soaked greens. Nelson, six-up at the 13th, closed it out at the 33rd with the score four-and-three. That left the unofficial championship just about where it was in the first place. With a win apiece, Nelson...
...neared 50, large and lusty Writer Paul de Kruif felt his considerable powers waning. His customary four-mile trot along a Lake Michigan beach slowed down to a walk. Three or four hours with the double-bitted ax and cross-cut saw were all he could stand. He tired easily, slept fitfully, found himself a prey to causeless fears...
Brooklyn's Public School No. 12 first became aware of him when a fire ax came flying out of the principal's office. After the ax came a boy about 5 ft. tall, a stranger in P.S. 12. He wore a peaked cap, a black leather jacket, and yellow trousers with blue stripes down the seams. When a crowd began to gather, the boy took to his heels, led a chase through the corridors, turned a corner and vanished...
Wrote Ruiz: "We were handicapped by a lack of tools, emery, grease, packing, nuts & bolts. We did not have an ax with which to chop wood for our smokehouse...