Word: hatchet
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...Vancouver, B. C., one William Phillips went home late at night, read a novel called The Triple Murder. He arose, grabbed a hatchet, slew his son Eric, 4, his daughter Joan, 10. Then he made after his wife Lillian, who jumped out of a window...
Despite his success in discovering murderers with nothing more than a scrap of cloth or a bloody hatchet to work on, crimes of violence did not interest the great Gaston Bayle...
...tents were unbogged and struck, correspondents asked at Scout headquarters if a valuable golden hatchet was really going to be left buried in Arrowe Park. "It was only gilded wood," beamed a Scout official, "and I expect by now it's been dug up and split into souvenirs." Lay visitors to the Scout jamboree, he added, had totaled 314,422, believed to be a record...
...From the northlands, southlands, eastlands and westlands you came at the call of my horn! I have buried this golden hatchet, the emblem of war, enmity and bad feeling. From now on the Scout symbol of peace is a golden arrow. I send you back to your homelands as ambassadors of peace...
Though the arrow is exclusively a weapon, whereas the hatchet is primarily a tool, loyal Scouts raised a hearty cheer for "B. P.", saw him off in his new "Penny Rolls-Royce" (purchased from international Scout contributions of one penny each...