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Word: axman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Margaret Mitchell, who put Atlanta back on the literary map, will christen the cruiser Atlanta, ∙∙Now that President Roosevelt has gone back to the old Thanksgiving, Republican Governor Sumner Sewall has proclaimed the new Thanksgiving for the first time in Maine. ∙∙ An unidentified axman vainly tried to decapitate Sabrina, the bronze nymph for whom 80 generations of Amherst classes have fought one another. ∙∙ Prophet Wilbur Glen Voliva of Zion, Ill. predicted a bad end for the dictators by plunging into a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). ∙∙ Dr. Samuel Harden Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Ladies & Ancients | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...which blossomed on walls here & there in the city. The posters carried a blasphemous "Prayer of the Perfect Italian Fascist," which clumsily parodied the ancient supplications of Christians: Credo I believe in England, zone of tyranny, creator of sanctions and Masonic gods, and in Eden, her son, our only axman, -who was conceived by virtue of Masonic and anti-Fas cist spirits, was born out of the League of Nations, will suffer always under the spirit of Mussolini, went down to Hell with his father. . . . I believe in the holy Fascist cause, in the resurrection of Imperial Italy of Benito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Black-out For the Vatican? | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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