Word: handsaw
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...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...
...grammar. Go to Chicago, not to Athens, for your professors of Greek, gentlemen. In such matters sit at the feet of men of ripe experience like President Barnard of Dartmouth. He knows a good Grecian when he sees him as surely as President Barnard knows a hawk from a handsaw, and when he wants anything in the Greek line he orders it from Illinois...