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Jack, having butchered seven Spaniards not possessed of gold earrings, splits the eighth with an ax and wrests from his ears the trophy demanded by a pert minx-in-waiting to the Queen, Kate More, "granddaughter of Sir Thomas More...
Psychologically sound is the method used to win the confidence of the laborers: the college man shows his ability with pick and shovel, ax and saw, so that his fellow laborers may judge him by their own standards. In the evenings, conditions are reversed; the college man gives instruction appropriate to the development of his pupils...
...rose from rodman in a chain gang, through every department of the railroad to election to the Presidency in 1913, is an industrialist of a school that is rapidly passing into legend- a school whose favorite reading matter is the Bible, whose favorite exercise is obtained with an ax handle, who believe that work is the secret of their success, and who - nourished in the fervor of an epoch fat with expansion -have an impugnable faith in every man's ability to succeed. True to the convention of his school, he will devote the rest of his life...
...Coolidge's chief advisers," expressed its dislike of unofficial discussion of the debt situation, and urged prominent tourists to hold their peace. That part of the press which is friendly to the Administration echoed the sentiments and flayed the talking tourists as "meddlers," "muddlers," "hand-kissers," "knee-crookers," "ax-grinders," "sycophants." The result was that, a few days later, the unofficial spokesman, speaking "informally but authoritatively," declared that the U. S. meant just what it said when it invited foreign powers (TIME, May 25) to arrange to pay up their debts. He went on to say-lest foreigners take...
...Welcome, sir! I hope 1 see you well, sir," says the affable executioner to the condemned man as he mounts the scaffold. At the same time Chonheads runs his anger approvingly over the keen edge of his ax...