Word: axes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that your husband loses his job and the vampire presents him with the atmosphere. After a few hard weeks he will acknowledge himself beaten and come back for forgiveness to you and little Melville, the innocent kiddie. If you do not hit him over the head with an axe you are all kinds of an idiot...
...Chamber of Deputies passed to the Senate an ordinary budget, calling for an expenditure of $1,460,214,000, with an estimated revenue from all sources of $1,214,955,000, leaving a deficit of $245,259,000. The Senate Committee applied a drastic economy axe to all departmental budgets achieving a cut of $113,400,000. Revenue estimates were raised by $170,100,000 by increased taxation returns, larger contributions from French colonies such as Indo-China and Madagascar, the attachment to the budget of $3,780,000 from the Saar basin coal- mines, and $31,500,000 from...
...Republicans and the Democratic National Committeemen, pure and orthodox, are not the only politicians with an axe to grind on lumps of sugar. Senator Capper of Kansas saw an opportunity of capturing credit for the farm bloc. "Unless the sugar raiders are punished, Congress will be compelled by the farm and progressive blocs to take over...
...this new and very attractive Harvard periodical is really going to lay the axe to the root of the tree, it will need, I think, a bit more weight in the head of the axe and a keener edge to the blade. Or rather, let us revert to entomology. There is an insect something like a gad-Fly, which buzzes just as loudly, and is even more glossy and friendly and inquisitive and circulatory. It bothers some persons, but it never actually bites. It is known as the June-bug. But it will take more than a June...
...everyday life. Last fall the newspapers told of a small sail-boat, only six miles from the scene of Hugo's story, which was actually attacked by a gigantic octopus. One tentacle, grasping the mast, almost upset the boat before the tough feeler could be backed off with an axe; another reached up and clutched a man; and only after an hour's battle was the monster forced back into...