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...Wisteria Trees has its own strong sense of period and place. And in Louisiana as in Russia, the family will not sell off some of the land they love in order to survive, so that in the end their plantation goes under the hammer, their wisteria vines under the ax...
...schools-the Academy of Christian Education, Patten College and Patten Seminary. Students joined up at the rate of 300 a year, paying $20 a month tuition, slipping on bright school sweaters with big block Ps, and learning the school yells. Sample, adopted from the old "Give 'em the ax": "Give 'em the Word, the Word, the Word." Some paid $5 for the academy's first and only yearbook, The Portal, a tome which explained Brother Tom's role in the world: "After scanning the honor roll of the obedient, the eyes of God rested...
...contrast to TV's boom, radio was tightening its belt. The number of sponsored evening shows was off 37%, compared to four years ago, and many a current big-time program was threatened, by the economy ax...
...years. To the stockholders of U.S. Gypsum, which he also heads, Avery reported that the company had salted away $55 million in cash reserves. Warned Avery: "The thing that hit us in 1929 cannot be assumed not to happen again. Personally, I have been waiting for years for the ax to fall. I am becoming more convinced momentarily that the time is not far away...
...devil." But Dickens' perpetually optimistic Mr. Micawber produced micawberish and the pompous Mr. Bumble lent his name to incompetence forever after. Similarly, a hangman named Derrick is immortalized in hoisting devices, French Physician Joseph Guillotin in a machine which struck him as more humane than the ax, and be-trousered Suffragette Amelia Bloomer in billowing pantalets. It is a process that has never stopped, concludes Partridge happily-from Solon, who became a synonym for lawyer, to Mae West, who became a life jacket...