Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wasn't dead. She lay weakly spitting out teeth and blood. Doctors think she will live. Her face may be twisted with scars despite the surgeon's work. A policeman said she looked as though someone had hit her in the face with a sledge-hammer...
...razor, waiters with food. Newshawks lounged in the outer office, taking periodic statements from Mr. Puffer. Pending a court decision, it-was beginning to look like a two-week siege when, shortly after 5 p. m., nine men strode into the office. One of them unwrapped a sledge hammer, battered down the door...
...come out," squealed Otto Aken. "I have been ejected by force and by force alone. This gives me the protection of the law." Mr. Aken walked out. His henchmen were dragged out. Then the nine men wrapped up the sledge hammer, strode away...
...saturnine King Christian X. The great, eight-sided courtyard of Amalienborg Palace was jam-packed with strapping, irate Danish farmers in the grip of a grievance. The King, as he peered from his palace, noted on some brawny arms the swastika band of the Danish Nazis, on others the hammer & sickle of Communism (see p. 18). The mob had gathered from the eastern Danish islands, where little farms are thickest, to demand that Premier Theodore Stauning lower farm taxes, raise farm prices, declare a farm mortgage moratorium and dismiss politicians from the Government's agricultural bureaus. In a huff...
...Waldman of Cleveland, just because Mr. Waldman had once known Mrs. Ida Rose Cooper, she sent magic fireballs into their windows at night. Mr. Waldman had been burnt. The Waldmans slept with a pair of pliers in the bed to catch the floating fireballs, a hammer and anvil to smash them with, and "even in this hot weather we had to keep the windows closed to keep the fireballs out." When Mrs. Matilda Waldman shot and killed Mrs. Cooper last week, headlines ran NO MORE FIREBALLS FOR WITCH SLAYER...