Word: axed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur J. Stroebel '53, of Milwaukee, was arrested after he had smashed his way into a filling station with an axe to get train fare to Cambridge. Police said that he was carrying a 38 caliber revolver...
...remains that he was pushed--that Yale started looking for the axe right after the season was over, and those that originally felt that Hickman jumped Yale, and there were many of us, were wrong...
...church study, Norris shot and killed an unarmed Fort Worth lumberman, D. E. Chipps, got off scot-free when he called it "self-defense." Constantly at odds with the Southern Baptists, he organized some 3,000 churches into his own Fundamentalist fellowship, urged his followers to "use the broad axe of John the Baptist, not a little pearl-handled knife, on worldly card playing, dancing, and hell raising...
...other characters are just background. Kim Hunter as Sam's divorced wife does bring a new and welcome interpretation to a hackneyed role. But Ethel Barrymore as the old lady who fights to keep the paper from falling under the financial axe is the same kind, old, quiet, wise, power-behind-the-power as she was in her last dozen pictures. Hollywood has no one else who fits the same description. Members of the paper's staff were meticulously drawn to fit a pattern that directors have carefully designed over the years...
...religious symbolism starts to pile on thickly, and, to those who don't know previously what Mr. Eliot is driving at, the speeches degenerate into a sort of rasping buzz that emanates from the stage. Actually, of course, this rasping buzz is Mr. Eliot, grinding his Anglo-Catholic axe and cleverly turning the institutions of modern society into arguments against themselves...