Word: cutlasses
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...cotton industry, which operates 37,000,000 spindles* in 3,000 mills. They were wary because they are traditionally accustomed to "sneaking up on one another"- in a commercial way-and hamstringing one another through one another's trade sinews. The New England manufacturers had begun this cutlass-heaving, had grown potent - in a commercial way. Southern manufacturers, as they set themselves up along the Atlantic coastal plain, acquired the same tactics. This became all the easier when the New Englanders commenced filtering south for the sake of the cheap mountain labor of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama...
...Jolly Roger. A. E. Thomas has created a pirate drama cunningly carved from sea yarns of long ago with a cutlass of pointed wit. He has worked along lines made familiar to the great American audience by Captain Applejack.. He swashes more, however, than did the creators of that popular satire. He dramatizes his burlesque rather than burlesquing his drama. He maintains a beautiful, deep blue background of sea and sky, and salts his situations with oaths and the glitter of daggers at every course...
...which is no romance. Inevitably are there times when we long to have, (as what gentleman should not?) "at least twenty coats"; to find ourselves in a wide hall choosing a rapier of founding a silver mounted pistol, or to be out on the still wider seas, swinging a cutlass...
...example of Catholic "Orangeman:" the thought-furrowed brow of General Pratt: the "eggs and toast" of the Holly Tree: and the nocturnal journeys to that Paradise whence Adam has not yet been expelled, and at whose gates no flaming sword checks the wanderer, save, it may be, that metaphorical cutlass, the "11 o'clock law," - each and all of these we greet with renewed respect and affection, and then look about us to ascertain the cause for the slight feeling of vacuity that we, as a student body, experience. One thing, - one little thing we lack to make our surroundings...