Word: hatcheteering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Denver, they have buried the hatchet, brought out the peace dove, shaken hands, spoken words of mutual praise, given up things for the common weal...
...buried the hatchet? One party is Fred G. Bonfils, sometime gambler, fighter, and more recently philanthropist, who is proud to say that his grandfather (surnamed Buonfiglio) was a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte. When the West was a gold brick, Mr. Bonfils bounced about until he profited $800,000 in the Little Louisiana Lottery. Then he ran into a garrulous bartender named H. H. Tammen and they bought a newspaper, the Denver Post, with which they fattened the gambler's wad and extended the bartender's ingenuity. They had a circus, too (Sells-Floto). But, for raw meat...
...they bury the hatchet? Mr. Howard, returning from a hunting trip in Wyoming, stopped off in Denver, talked with Mr. Bonfils. They talked, off and on, for nearly a week. Finally, each agreed to kill a newspaper. This leaves Denver with the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News for its breakfast table and the Bonfils Post for its afternoon fare, with both for its Sunday picnic. The prices were raised by both publishers from 2? daily and 5? Sunday to 3? daily and 10? Sunday. The Rocky Mountain News added Associated Press service to its United Press service.* The Post added...
...they bury the hatchet? Because newspaper wars, especially long ones, cost money. Because Denver advertisers, and all advertisers, prefer two papers to four papers, especially when the two papers represent monopolies in their respective (morning and evening) fields...
...ranch near Fairfield, Calif., one Leung Ling or Loy Yeung, a Chinese cook, paid a visit. On his arrival, he took a rifle and a hatchet and killed one Wong Gee, Mrs. Wong Gee and three Wong Gee children. This done, he slaughtered Wong Hueng, whose brother owned the ranch, an old Chinaman named Low Chuck and three others. Then, in an automobile which had belonged to one of his enemies, Leung Ling set out for ways that were dark. California police, while they were perturbed, seemed less troubled than they were last spring when a U. S. youth hacked...