Word: hatchet
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...kept my eyes on a sturdy, hatchet-faced man confined in a blue, double-breasted overcoat because he knew what was going on. Most of the people who were attracted by the bunting knew nothing; they just waited for the show. But the hatchet-faced man, who was an official, knew all of the policemen and also many of the tall and short red-faced men in hombergs and Chesterfields who waited on the reviewing stand and elsewhere. He shook hands with many of them and passed remarks, and invariably the tall and short red-faced men smiled wisely...
...open Cadillac. He looked cold and not very honored, but he smiled at the man next to me. A lot of people didn't see him; the Cadillac swept by the reviewing stand and the General didn't alight. Only the police, the man with the mace and the hatchet-faced man knew what was going on; the hatchet-faced man, I noticed, hovered at the door of the Copley to keep back souvenir seekers. The General went...
...have leisure time. They all wore nice blue-gray uniforms and some had nice blue-gray hair. The drivers became confused when they got to the reviewing stand. There was some tooting and gear-clashing and station wagons all over the place. But only for a moment; the hatchet-faced man directed them and they wheeled their cars to the door of the hotel where the women passengers labored out. I don't know what happened to the portable canteen...
...hatchet-faced man was there; he was wise, calm, and paternal...
...suspect" in the attempted dynamiting of Walter Reuther's union headquarters in Detroit (TIME, Jan. 2). Police in 48 states, wrote Turcott, were hunting one Paul F. Kassay, described by the News as a "Moscow-trained saboteur" and a "Communist fanatic . . . and avowed party hatchet man" who has been "at large" since another sabotage attempt...