Word: axed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the Axe of Fascism" is concerned only with one aspect of Fascism, "those institutions through which Fascism claims to have solved the problem of the relations between capital and labor." Professor Salvemini has not relied upon the observations of contemporary historians, but has drawn his information almost exclusively from Fascist sources--Italian newspapers, political speeches, and the like. There is no limit to his poignant ridicule of Mussolini's defenders. He takes delight in combusting the wild assumptions and vague generalities of British critics, notably Mr. Goad and Major Barnes, two superficial students of the new "revolution...
What maddens relief-men more than abstract ideas about capitalism and the class war is the ever-present specter of the official axe. Life on the dole is no career of social security at best. But when funds are bounced around from project to project with the hit-and-miss efficiency of startled rabbits, and workers are fired in Manhattan and hired in Brooklyn at the same moment, those whose life blood depends on federal cash rise up in righteous anger at their treatment...
Coach Fred Mitchell swung the axe again yesterday, but 17 Varsity baseball players surviving the latest cut are sure of a train ride when the team makes its annual junket through the South next week...
...seized by the Nobles, to th' axe he was sent...
Because they could take it as one more indication of degenerate capitalist aristocracy, Reds might delight in Henry de Montherlant's portrait of two eccentrics. Tycoons would find it had little connection with real life as they know it. But readers with no axe to grind and no grindstone to rest their noses on will be entertained, amused and touched by Perish in Their Pride. Though a study in human eccentricity (and French eccentricity at that), it was concentric with a more perfectly rounded humanity. Author Montherlant did not make caricatures of his creatures, grotesques in their own right...