Word: axed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage, effectively shrilling her hatred for her mother Queen Klytemnestra, passionately pleading for the help of her lovely weak sister Chrysothemis (Soprano Goeta Ljungberg), eerily warning the conscience-stricken queen of the day when her son Orestes shall return, come upon her in her bed, hack her with an axe until blood streams red as it streamed in Agamemnon's bath...
...alone was costing the city $162,480 per year. Summoning his Commissioner of Markets, he told him that unless he remedied this "shocking condition," in two days, he would be ignominiously "fired." Two days later Tammany-backed William F. Dwyer was ousted, first to fall under Mayor McKee's axe...
...only in Alaska. Of cut jade five very fine specimens have been found in Mexico. One is now in Berlin, another in Stuttgart, a third in the National Museum of Mexico. A fourth is at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. It is a light green jadeite axe-head, a foot long, with a snouted, bawling face on its side. Last week a fifth piece went on exhibition at the American Museum. Found 22 years ago by a U. S. engineer, now dead, during excavation work on a Mexican dam. it was bought and presented to the Museum...
...speak-easy as bootlegger and iceman. In the speakeasy. Harpo plays the slot machine with buttons, tries to enlarge his winnings by dropping coins in a pay telephone. He bowls grapefruit at bottles on the bar and when he hears someone say "Cut the cards." does it with an axe which he carries in his pocket...
...late King Frederick VIII, whose second son was elected King of Norway in 1905. Also tender-hearted though of stern appearance, Norway's King Haakon was much moved by the acquittal two years ago of his subject Mrs. Marie Jensen, who had killed her husband with an axe. Penitent, Mrs. Jensen not only confessed her crime but begged the local jury to convict her. They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen by contributing 500 kroner ($133) from...