Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humorous vein, would confect such a series as The First Auto (see cut), in which a swank couple in duster and goggles buy a two-cylinder Pope-Hartford, take to the open road, encounter a thunderstorm, suffer a breakdown (which they attempt to mend with a gimlet and a hatchet), and finally drive on into a sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas of Mrs. Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such things as Evangeline...
...Cleveland, when his five-year-old son butted into a quarrel between drunken Sam Lovelace and his wife, Father Lovelace threw a hatchet at the child. Baby Lovelace picked it up, returned the throw ten feet, fracturing his father's skull...
...last week a vast stretch of the South was the scene of humanity hit bottom. No statistics could picture the pallid acres from Georgia to Arkansas, pocked with the burnt stumps of slash pine, gully-gutted, unfertilized; where the whitewash peeled from treeless shacks; where hatchet-faced tenants were not even able to get the three M's-Meal, Molasses and Meat-a diet that nourishes pellagra...
...engaged around the Fox studio serves as his director. Aside from their central character, Charlie Chan casts contain few notables. Their settings are cheap. They are made in 24 days. They are particularly popular in China, where audiences are grateful for a compatriot who is neither opium-smoker nor hatchet man. Almost all the letters which they arouse are addressed not to Warner Oland but to Charlie Chan...
Following the conference, "New-Week" claimed the "Hearst-Youth hatchet buried"-as farcical a misstatement as ever appeared in print. It cannot be denied that a few of those present had slightly too much regard for Mr. Hearst's altruism, and were rudely shocked when he was accused of ulterior motives. But the overwhelming majority came and went in firm opposition to his principles and methods. Talks by Hearst-writers Richard Washburn Child and Bainbridge Colby and indirect offers to become wavers of the Hearst banner did surprisingly little to alter their opinion. Drop in the bucket though...