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...Manhattan, arrested while hacking at a fire hydrant with an ax. James Boyle explained in court: "I found the ax on my way home from a tavern and just couldn't resist the impulse to chop something down. I used to be in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
...such was neither unknown nor unrewarded. Besides being a ship carpenter his father was also first cousin to famed Dr. Benjamin Rush, best known American physician of his day, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush figureheads were in such demand that he employed apprentices to help him chop them out. Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with sketch pads in little boats to copy the latest Rush figureheads when new U. S. clippers reached...
...numbers, Paul Haakon to leap through the smooth ones. There is Bert Lahr, the most emphatic comedian on the revue stage, as a noisy Hollywood actor trying to chisel out of paying his income tax and as an over-manly baritone in a hickory shirt bellowing, "What do you chop when you chop a tree!" while occasionally getting an untimely handful of chips thrown in his face from the wings...
...scientists are suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradox flourishes in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star-clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life-germ through a thicket of test tubes. Some workers must patrol the vales & swales where humbler things may be found beneath any stone. Such upturned stones in recent weeks disclosed the following...
...room above. He loses the fight, earns another crack at the title, wins it. When neither he nor Mabel proves a box-office draw, a press agent gives them glamor by a fake romance. This evokes wearisome bickering, which suddenly ends when hungry Cain surprises Mabel cooking a pork chop. They take to meeting surreptitiously in the public library, kissing behind a book on ichthyology. This state of affairs is ruptured by the machinations of the press agent. Before the fadeout Cain goes berserk in the ring, Mabel goes berserk on the stage...