Word: hacksaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece begins with a wolf call, and ends with all the instruments thrown into a corner. It is scored for ukulele, kazoo, hogan-twanger (wooden box and hacksaw blades), cardboard box, seal barks and an Indian elephant bell. It has words like this...
Flight Canceled. In Colorado Springs, Colo., farsighted police removed from a window ledge of the jail the hacksaw blades which farsighted juvenile delinquents had stashed there, before they were arrested...
...tried a novel picketing technique. Like many banks, the Brooklyn Trust's doors are adorned by brass handrails. Three women pickets-not bank employees-handcuffed themselves together and linked themselves as a human chain to the door rails, thus blocking the entrance. It took a patrolman with a hacksaw to cut the girls loose. At week's end, the bank said some 50 out of 800 employees were on strike and banking was going on as usual...
Infield Out. In Kansas City, Mo., Joe Infield got his head wedged in the bars of his bed. His wife, his mother-in-law, ten neighbors, two cops, a hacksaw, a chisel, and a hammer finally freed...
Giles and Cook began to practice up last November by knocking a hole in the wall at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, and escaping. Rearrested and lodged in the county jail at Council Bluffs, the pair produced a hacksaw, apparently from thin air, and began sawing a hole in the floor. They were searched and moved to separate cells in the escape-proof city jail across the street...