Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Choreographer De Mille's first all-out try at murder. She had long been fascinated by the story of Lizzie Borden, the Fall River (Mass.) spinster who was tried in the '90s for the ax murder of her father and stepmother. Last year ("because I was feeling gloomy and murderous") she started building a ballet to show in Freudian terms how a young girl might get worked up to murder. One difference: her heroine commits the murders onstage and hangs; Lizzie Borden was acquitted...
...round up MacArthur votes and quotes, under stern orders not to take no for an answer. (At week's end, one reporter quit in disgust.) In Washington, MacArthur campaign offices were opened right "next to the Republican National Committee" with some of the black type usually reserved for ax-murderers...
Living Dangerously. In Monmouth, Ill., Constable Jess L. Berner went to the hospital with ax wounds after he tried to serve an eviction notice on 80-year-old, 4-ft. tall Mrs. Elizabeth Jean Snedeker...
...disagreed with Treasury Secretary Snyder on how to handle inflation. With his recommendations for tighter Government controls of banks and financing, he had stirred up the bankers and brokers. He was always treading on toes. He had also been spotted paying occasional visits to Senator Bob Taft. The ax fell...
...State of Washington's Walla Walla penitentiary, Negro Jake Bird, 46, about to die on the gallows for the ax-murder of a Tacoma woman, won a 60-day reprieve by confessing that he could "clear up" 44 other murders...