Search Details

Word: axed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...argument is that citizens on relief are supported in such comfort that they lose all desire to find jobs, improve their circumstances. Last week in Seattle, scrawny Ester Hilda Olson, 33, confessed that she had bashed in the head of her pretty, 16-year-old daughter Rose with an axe, cut her throat with a bread knife, buried her in a thicket near their shack. Explained Mother Olson: "I thought I was doing Rose a kindness by killing her. I was tired of living like an animal and raising her that way. I've been on relief, getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Kindness | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

UNDER THE AXE OF FASCISM-Gaetano Salvemini-Viking ($3). The case against Mussolini, forcefully presented by an exiled political scientist, now lecturing at Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 25, 1936 | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Conant has unfortunately (and perhaps because of finances necessarily) inspired too great a fear of God in his faculty. It is imperative that this situation be cleared up; men cannot work efficiently with a sharpened axe too close to their necks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE TO HARVARD? | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

When the new British policy is framed, England will have to bear in mind the fact that Italy is slowly manoeuvering herself into a position of dominance in the Mediterranean, and that the Suez and Malta are dangerously near the Fascist axe. The days of the old-fashioned European Alliances and Alignments seem to be back to stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DILEMMA'S HORNS | 5/6/1936 | See Source »

...Under the Axe of Fascism" deserves a niche in the library beside the worthy volumes of Mr. Finer, Mr. Elwin, and Miss Haider. It is a distinct contribution to the enlightened understanding of present day Italy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/5/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | Next