Word: handsaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roosted quietly. So did "the duck hunting dentist," Shipstead of Minnesota, the one-man party (Farmer Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...
Here is a writer, a young new U. S. writer, who instinctively differentiates between the hawk of living and the handsaw of existing. He appears to have lived considerably himself, in unusual ways and places. He knows how trout-fishing in Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride on European tracks; how half-breed squaws bear their children back of the logging camps; how bulls and toreros slaughter one another in Spain. He knows what it is like to pot German soldiers scaling a garden wall; to ski in the Tyrol; to bum on Canadian freight trains...
...humorous interpretation of old southern songs, as well as one or two more ambitious efforts. Her act was closely rivaled in the appreciation of the audience by Lynch and Zollar, ingenious hat manipulators, and the Weaver Brothers, excelling all others we have seen in extracting melody from a handsaw. Among others on the same bill were Bobby McLean in a skating act, Billy Glason, a noisy but good-humored comedian Elsa Ryan, in an act obviously designed to appeal to the politically dominant fifty percent of Boston's population, Rome and Gaut in a comedy act, and the customary athletic...