Word: hatchet
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...become, he is a magnificent tradition. But he no longer is of value to Americans, beyond the comfortable knowledge that once in the old days there were giants upon the earth. It is enough for the present to wave flags, to beat drums, to construct tales of a hatchet and a cherry tree. The sober mind, the common sense, the courageous, generous spirit lie with, and are of, an age that is past...
...Hatchet Man (First National). So convincingly did Edward G. Robinson perform in Little Caesar and Smart Money that he, rather than Alphonse Capone or the late John ("Legs") Diamond, has become the prototype of the U. S. gangster. When cinemaddicts read of the doings in the underworld, they form an immediate picture of Edward G. Robinson operating a machine gun in Chicago, a distillery in Manhattan or a poker game in a Florida casino. Actually, however, the countenance of Edward G. Robinson is less wicked than Mongolian. Shrewdly cast in this old (David Belasco-Achmed Abdullah) melodrama of San Francisco...
...oriental face of Edward G. Robinson contains all the most convincing features of the entertainment. He is forced, by the rules of his tong, to bury his hatchet in the neck of his best friend who, aware that no personal enmity is involved, wills his daughter to his murderer. Complications occur when the daughter (Loretta Young, with braces for her eyes) grows up. She marries the hatchetman but falls in love with a worthless Oriental who takes her to China and sells her into slavery. Robinson with his axe retrieves her. The narrative, sensational and gory, unlikely and over deliberate...
...nostrils might have distended even more, had their owner heard of: 1) a project to sell his effigy painted on imitation leather as a back tire cover for auto mobiles; 2) a Manhattan theatre where a box office clerk had to tell a patron that a cinema called The Hatchet Man (see p. 28) was not about the father of his country; 3) a song called "Father of the Land We Love," written by George Michael Cohan with a cover by James Montgomery Flagg, a copy of which was to be put into every U. S. home; 4) the offices...
...demeanor, even during the process of attempted assault was not discourteous. Perhaps he was a waiter or a steward. Accompanied by the police Mrs. Pagenstecher & maid went aboard the Monarch of Bermuda. Hiding in his berth they found one Peter Paul Jencius, 18. On his head was the hatchet mark that Mrs. Pagenstecher's maid had blazed...