Word: buzz-saw
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...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...