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Word: axed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarrelsome wenches proved last week on the old Toluca road near Mexico City whether the rope is mightier than the axe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rope v. Axe | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...Axe-wench Melquiades Luna rushed with flashing machete upon Rope-wench Dorotea Mancilla who sat astride a prancing pinto pony. As the axe swung the pony pivoted and the lasso hissed. Caught and pinioned by the terrible rope, Axe-wench Melquiades was dragged over pebbly ground 150 ft., screaming for mercy. Neighbors said that shrewd Rope-wench Dorotea had challenged her rival to their curious duel "about something that has kept them angry at each other for the last two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rope v. Axe | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...long ago tall, grave King Haakon VII belied his stern appearance, made the first contribution to a fund for the benefit of a woman with two children who, beaten repeatedly by her husband, finally killed him with an axe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Scalawags Beware | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs. Anna Sahl found William Burkowski-hacking at her front porch with an axe. Rebuked, William Burkowski admitted that he was a housewrecker, that he had mistaken her house for that of a client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Roomer | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Montreal, Mary Foster, 15, hacked her mother to death with an axe for telling her to go to school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 14, 1930 | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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