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That he can be thus serene may be accounted for, of course, in two ways. When he takes up his pen he has no axe to grind, no literary "set" to placate, no flickering reputation to blow into a flame, and no disingenuous criticism to fear. And then there is that twinkle of the eye, that ability to "see things steadily and see them whole", which precludes his ever entering into the hurly-burly of purely temporary arenas. Critical judgement has long since discovered and frequently used the word which best describes his writings; it is the word "universal...
...woodman's axe rings once more among Presidential timber. Industrious politicians prepare with the approach of Winter to sluice their sturdy oaks through the waters of party politics down to the convention sawmill. The Stewart Edward Whites and James Oliver Curwoods of politics have already written the opening chapters of the great log drive...
TWEEDLES?Are you a tweedle? In other words, do you consider your family tree one of a strictly limited number of giant Sequoias? If you do, Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson are out for you with a satiric axe in this most engaging comedy...
...course, too late in the day to execute Kai Lung-and so the days went on-in spite of the degraded persistence of the effete Ming-Shu, Kai Lung always managed to turn aside with a novelette in one style or another, the blade of the axe of doom whenever it rested too unpleasantly close to his neck. At last, in fact, the tables were turned indeed-the evilly nimble feet of Ming-Shu entrapped into a fatal error of judgment that implicated Shan Tien-Ming-Shu took Kai Lung's place in the Oriental jail-and Kai Lung...
...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...