Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acknowledges "securing aid and authorization of Miss Nightingale's relatives." To Mr. Strachey, however, Florence Nightingale was more like the kind of person Carrie Nation might have turned out to be had she been interested in caring for the sick instead of breaking up bars with umbrella and hatchet. The Strachey, or "real" Nightingale was possessed of a fatigueless demon, was no mystic...
...picture of an ungainly witch swaddled in an 1890 bathing suit, an arrow pointing to the knee. Legends: Consider your Knee Cap!!! Don't Rasp Your Wife's Throat With Harsh Irritants. "Reach for a Hatchet Instead" . . . Ducky Wucky Cigarettes. "They're Hash Browned," Purified by Hot Air and Advertising Rays...
...March lion and lamb have settled their annual differences under the benignant influence of the April sun. Today another truce will be confirmed when the tiger from Nassau walks amicably by John Harvard's side. The hatchet has been buried for many months, but it will be a pleasure to throw another spade full of earth upon the grave...
...Willie Macfarlane and Wiffy Cox: $5,000, the prize for a four-ball team golf tournament at Miami. In a play-off against Johnny Farrell and Gene Sarazen, Macfarlane played the first nine holes in 30, six under par, sinking five first putts. Lanky, hatchet-faced Scot Macfarlane distinguished himself once before in a playoff, when he beat Bobby Jones for the 1925 Open...
...railings of the Houses of Parliament, shouting themselves hoarse on street corners, smashing windows on Bond Street. Suffraget May Richardson had already distinguished herself by setting fire to the Countess of Carlisle's home at Hampton-on-Thames. Up to the Rokeby Venus walked she, suddenly produced a hatchet from her muff, slashed the picture across and across...