Word: hatchet
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...Peddler James Sampson "drinks two glasses of cider brandy [applejack], plain, every morning and evening-never more; has lost a large double tooth on lower jaw, back, second from throat on left side; has a scar an inch long on his left leg kneepan; cause: cut himself with a hatchet when only three years old." Credit sleuths have been weighing financial responsibility with the most intimate details of a man's personal life ever since...
Boss of the attack on France's Algiers was a rangy man with a face, according to his friends, that looks as though it was carved by a hatchet: Major General Charles W. Ryder, 50. He was a hero of World War I. As if with foresight the Republic of France then pinned the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre with palm on "Doc" Ryder...
...Women's Christian Temperance Union figured last week that the U.S. is letting the war drive it to drink 17.7% more liquor than last year. Small, sharp beagle-eyed President Ida B. Wise Smith and the W.C.T.U. are back on the warpath again with a whoop and a hatchet...
Private Billy Conn, ex-light-heavyweight champion slated to fight Joe Jouis in June for the title, paid a call on father-in-law Jimmy Smith in Pittsburgh. A friend, Conn said later, had told him Smith wanted to bury the hatchet. Instead, the fur flew. Conn left his father-in-law's house with a broken hand. "Smith asked me if I was afraid of him," he explained. "I told him I wasn't afraid of anybody. Then it started." Conn went back to camp with his hand in a cast, his face scratched, his bout with...
...that Harvard men are not necessarily rich wastrels or radical agitators, and undergraduates will find that residents of the city can be more than "those people who ride the El." Once the two groups have learned that the other can be trusted and depended upon, the edge of the hatchet will be dulled sufficiently to make its burial practically certain...