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Word: hatchets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...maintained that woman suffrage is bad and was brought about by low-down methods? If it is not, then how can any self respecting person with a college trained mind maintain that prohibition was put over on the people by illegal methods because of the acts of the "hatchet-bearing females...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hatchet-Bearing Females" | 5/2/1924 | See Source »

...most important, he brings a deep respect for his opponent which Sullivan never held for Corbett. Dempsey faces him with startling speed, uncanny skill and a jab in either hand that bites like a hatchet. He is probably not the fighter of four years ago that launched Willard into a pugilistic eternity from which he recently endeavored to return. His timing and his eye have dulled a trifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Good Old Jack | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

...sign myself in the old-time Incas that my father taught me in the ancient way with a hatchet and a slab of marble. He was an able scholar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/27/1922 | See Source »

...destroy, it needs a depository, and naturally this much-slandered edifice will dutifully continue serving this purpose. The odium that attaches to it will, of course, wear off in time, and eventually the museum may be expected to gain the attention it righteously deserves. The sooner the artistic hatchet is buried the better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GERMANIC MUSEUM | 2/26/1921 | See Source »

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