Word: axing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial continues: "Armed with a ventilator stick and an emergency axe, the Negro felled five passengers and three of the train crew...
...like to know who started all that talk. I'm sick and tired of it. I'd kick him around the town!" Equally extravagant are the tales about him. Once he stuck a pin in Frances Starr to get her to scream correctly. Once he took an axe to a set which Ina Claire had criticized. Once in Washington, he heard an audience wildly applauding at one of his shows, was bitterly vexed when he learned it was an ovation for President Wilson. Further evidence of his personal showmanship was his propensity for surrounding Character Belasco with...
...conductor interfered, Porter Smith knocked him down with a brake club. Passengers and trainmen joined in the fight which ranged up and down through three Pullmans and finally out to a private car on the end of the train. Armed with a ventilator stick and an emergency fire axe, the Negro felled five passengers and three of the crew as the train rushed through the night. At Thendara, 50 mi. north of Utica, N. Y., State troopers had to board the train, quell Porter Smith by threatening to use tear gas bombs. The train was delayed more than an hour...
Germans are executed with axe and chopping block by a brawny man bedight in evening clothes and black gloves. Seemingly Peter Kuerten's neck cannot escape the axe. But the Düsseldorf Court, unwilling to take the smallest chance of the nine death sentences being set aside by pardon or reprieve, wound up by sentencing the prisoner to toil 15 years at hard labor if not executed, deprived him of all his rights as a German citizen, ordered him to pay all the costs of his trial?one of the most expensive in German criminal history...
...upon his own initiative. By increasing the burden, it is expected he will meet his added responsibilities. The new curriculum announces that the time for this greater responsibility and freedom is at hand. If the student fails to take advantage of the education offered and neglects his work, an axe, self-administered, will without ceremony cut short his college career...