Word: hatchetation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hatchet last week split the skull...
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...
Repeatedly in the past, the News has expressed the hope that Harvard and Princeton would bury the hatchet and resume football relationships. The CRIMSON, for one, refers to the breach as having been "unpleasantly made and foolishly maintained." We feel that reconciliation should come before the breach has time to become traditional and therefore irreparable. But it looks as though the issue will drag on for a number of years, gradually becoming more and more of a joke. There might even be benefit in that, because someday it will become so absurd that the continued estrangement of the two institutions...