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...ulein Lucker, robust, buxom, was paired in climbing with a lean, nervous youth, her fiance. With pick and pole and hatchet the party labored upward. Suddenly a blinding Alpine snow storm swept upon them, continued for 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ogreish Deity | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

Thus a blessing on a subtly sublimated form of falsity circulates throughout the country. With this publicity, Mark Twain's school of artistic lying has support in its war against prudish cherry trees. Apparently the hatchet is no vital weapon with which to attack the elastic spirit of falsehood. The ghost of Ananias may yet take corporeal form to lead the genial forces of fabrication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FABRICATED ARTISTRY | 3/20/1926 | See Source »

That night Que Yee, a Hip Sing, was met by three pellets of steel as he walked upstairs in his house. He rolled to the bottom and died. Wong Hong, a young Hip Sing gunman, was entering his lodging house. A hatchet came down on his head from behind and his brains were crushed. They found a revolver lashed inside his vest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Crime | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...Pulaski, Va., one D. M. Nickels, farmer, preacherman and Bible reader, was offended by the behavior of his right hand. He forthwith laid this member on a chopping block, took a blunt hatchet in his left, hacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 20, 1925 | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...appalling crime. Two boys, one 16 years old, the other 14, entered their parents' bedroom where they were sleeping with their two small daughters. The 14-year-old boy hit each of them on the head with a hammer; the older boy killed each with a hatchet. This was in the village of Weiher, near Kulmbach, Bavaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crime | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

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