Word: cleaver
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...while away the evenings with a waitress floozy (Peggy Pope). In her firmly devoted way, the mother believes that the boy should get to know and understand his carousing father. It is a futile hope: in a drunken stupor, the father tries to kill the boy with a meat cleaver. Yet beneath the coarseness and brutality, each member of this oddly pitiable, oddly humorous ménage à quatre is reaching out for love...
...five days the nation's eyes turned toward Watts, and this new-found sense of importance is still very much alive; it echoes, for instance, in the words of ghetto-poet Johnnie Scott: "A man called Fear has inherited a half-acre, and is angry." Eldridge Cleaver, in a letter written from Folsom Prison shortly after the outbreak, sums it up: "Watts was a place of shame. We used to use Watts as an epithet in much the same way as city boys used "country" as a term of derision...But now, blacks are seen in Folsom saying...
...while thousands jeered, a fearless Scot named William Wallace, the heart and soul of his country's resistance to the conquering English, was dragged through the streets of London behind a horse, hanged by the neck, cut down while still alive, disemboweled, decapitated with a bloody great cleaver, hacked into four chunks and sent home to Scotland severally...
...claw-hold as Hollywood's grande-dame ghoul. As Miss Charlotte, Bette rummages through the psyche of a Southern belle who first appears, already acting a teeny bit strange, one memorable evening in 1927. During a ball, someone slips out to the summer house and takes a cleaver to Charlotte's married lover, who has just jilted her. First John's right hand is lopped off, then his head, never to be seen again. Anyway, not for 37 years...
...outside the house, Benchley lets the ghost sink a second one. The ghosts, to be sure, have more life than the characters who are purportedly alive. There is Ebenezer, the ghost of a sullen, shifty sea captain who made a wraith of his infelicitous wife Felicity with a meat cleaver; and there is plump, blonde Jenny, who in her lifetime was known as a "hoor" among the townsfolk and who still plies her trade among the restless spirits. The novel is hardly more substantial...