Word: hatchet
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...hatchet last week split the skull...
...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...
After smoking the calumet with Princeton over a football impasse that lasted more than five years. Harvard is contemplating taking up the hatchet again on the same subject. This time it's Yale. The new policy adopted by the Yale athletic committee whereby the Blue will wind up its season every other year with Princeton instead of with the traditional Harvard classic has been received in hard part by Harvard undergraduates. There is considerable regret and equal indignation in Cambridge that Yale should let lapse a tradition of such long standing as the final game of the season between...
Parrot In Manhattan, Frank Yitkos, longshoreman, called police to his home, pointed to Mrs. Frances Yitkos on the bed, her head bashed in, her body lacerated. Said he: "I think my wife is dead." Under the bed was a bloody hatchet. His theory: that two men had attacked her while he was out. In the next room a parrot squawked: "Don't, papa, don't!" Frank Yitkos confessed to the murder...
...boys have buried the hatchet. It is hard to remember after four years just what the quarrel was about. Whatever it was, there can be no question that Princeton and Harvard men in general are tired of an estrangement too artificial to withstand the revival and the expression of genuine good feeling. --New York Herald Tribune...