Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famous strokes, at the end, of the ax against the cherry trees-symbolizing the death knell of a class and the vanishing of a certain poetry from life-round out the pathos of these people. But the ax-blade cuts two ways: these spoilt children, who oppose Philistinism, with sentimentality, will not fight for survival, make almost an art of their helplessness. If Chekhov pities them, he gently pillories them also...
...Never Scooped. White-thatched Clem Lane has been doing Oxie pieces for about six years. Oxie came into being when Mayor Edward J. Kelly (ever since a target of Oxie's meat ax) was trying to legalize Chicago's large population of bookmakers. The Daily News editorialized against it, and Lane, who knew his way around the handbooks, invented Oxie as a wiseacring mouthpiece...
...life. The father sees his son's first day at school, sees him playing Indian in the cornfields. He lives again through the moment when the twelve-year-old boy, not knowing that he was observed, gave up the money he was saving for a scout ax to a man in need. He sees the glamor and cruelty of his son's shy first love, sees him begin to assume responsibilities in the drugstore. Then one day the boy achieves the certitude that World War II is everybody's business. He enlists in the Navy. His father...
...Navy has had a far less hard-boiled policy toward inefficiency and slowness than the Army. Not a single admiral or captain . . . has been retired or reduced in rank because of inefficiency or incapacity . . . whereas many general officers and colonels in the Army have felt the ax...
...brigadier general had a face like a sharp ax and a back like a broomstick. He was all that the Academy taught its cadets an officer should be. He had three daughters and one son. In 1915, a live coal fell from a basket-grate in a dining room in the Presidio at San Francisco, set fire to the waxed floors. Pershing's wife and three daughters, Helen, Anne, Mary, were burned to death. All that was left to Brigadier General Pershing was his six-year...