Word: axes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expectant relatives ready either to recognize publicly the imminence of death and suggest a cure, or to bring in the hatchet and make an abrupt end of it. But now comes one from Italy who boldly suggests either of these unpleasant alternatives; the immediate remedy, or the axe. Mussolini is not, of course, too serious in believing that any medicine can be found which will restore a noticeable degree of health to the near corpse. He does go so far as to make a proposal that certain articles be hewed out of the Covenant in order to tempt back into...
...office, which I would not accept if it were tendered me. It may be that in your environment you are so accustomed to things being done from a purely selfish motive, that it is difficult for you to comprehend that there are people, who do not belong to the "axe grinder's club" and that in Texas things are done on a broader scale. Perhaps on this account, allowance should be made for your insinuation...
...tragic figures with a story. They begin to fumble artlessly with suicide, murder and passion in the tradition of the great dramatists. The actors' innocent prattle of art and souls off-stage and on becomes a ghoulish poison running through the unconscious town. The butcher inexpertly throws an axe at his wife. Jim Clancy jumps off the pier at low tide. It rains and rains. Finally the local member of the Dail Eireann, an odd character who looks part penguin, part shellfish (Ralph Cullinan), is moved by his recollection of a performance of Playwright Henrik Ibsen...
...that the midwives have ceased their incantations it seems a pretty sorry infant after all. When we heard that Secretary Ickes, having ascertained that 200,000 professional coal miners would be superfluous in the future, had decided upon drastic action, we naturally wondered on whose head the axe would fall, but the coal producers talked their way out of it, and left only the landlords in candidacy. The awful blow has come; the government proposes the platting of 200 subsistence farms by way of recompense to the 200,000 miners, and although there is much verbiage to decorate the gift...
...this brilliant novel makes mincemeat alike of the noble savage and the noble civilizer. If Authoress Holtby were not so entertaining, her carefully unmoralized tale might cause some well-clothed shudders. Prettily executed and often good for a laugh, Mandoa, Mandoa! may well seem to thoughtful readers a shrewd axe-blow at the roots of an aging tree. Mandoa, an (imaginary') independent country to the west of Abyssinia, was complacently self-sufficient. Small, poor but proud, it was a nominal matriarchate actually ruled by a small male aristocracy, supposedly Christian but actually savage, subsisting on the slave trade. When...