Word: buzz-saw
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...heckled, down-trodden proletariat will, with starting abruptness, proceed to clean house. The disembodied a spirit of the W. C. T. U. floating around in interstellar space, where there is no tobacco smoke, will have time to reflect on the fact that the American people are like a buzz-saw. One cannot "monkey" with them much...
...Hollis St. Theatre Monday evening, "Blue Jeans" made its first appearance before a Boston audience. It is familiarly known as "the buzz-saw play" since the leading feature of this comedy drama is the mill scene of the third act in which a buzz-saw is introduced and plays an important part. The old familiar adage "Do not monkey with the buzz-saw," taken both in its figurative and literal sense, seems to be the moral inculcated by this play...