Word: tomahawk
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...along the way by ripping out his fingernails, chopping off his thumbs, plucking out his hairs, heaping live coals on his body. Escaping after 14 months he went back to the scene of his captivity three years later to establish a mission. As he entered a cabin an Iroquois tomahawk cleaved his skull, starting him on the road to sainthood...
...Green Indian comes to town today with his tomahawk poised for the kill and the unlucky Harvard football team is to be the victim. That is, the Crimson is the object of the scalping party. Whether the Cowboys, represented by the home team, or the Indians from Hanover will be victorious is a question still obscure except to the miraculous insight of our colleague, Dr. Hu Flung Huey. TIME OUT ventures into this diatribe with little confidence in his power and many trepidations. For the Harvard team is not faithful. It is a fickle outfit this season, changing from good...
...cost him $250 to fly an 875-lb. Avro Avian from London to Australia three years ago. One Charles Butler completed the flight last week for $170 in a Comper Swift, supposedly the tiniest airplane in the world (weight about 500 lb.). Wearing carpet slippers for comfort, carrying a tomahawk for protection in case of a forced landing, Pilot Butler flew the 11,500 mi. in 9 days, 1 hr., 32 min., beating by about an hour the record of Charles William Anderson Scott...
...speaker: Charles Curtis, President of the Senate, Vice President of the U. S. The occasion: the Christmas dinner the Vice President traditionally gives Senate pages. For his hospitality, they presented him, as a Kaw Indian, with a beribboned tomahawk instead of the usual gavel. As a onetime jockey who still steals off to the races, Vice President Curtis grinned roundly when one page recited "How Salvator...
...four were seized, their cells searched. In one were found draftsman's designs of implements to be used in an escape. In another was discovered a wooden key model from which a duplicate of the keeper's key was to be made. In the power-house was unearthed a tomahawk-shaped utensil for short-circuiting all the lights in the old cellblock. Said Warden Lawes: "This was a scheme for a general jail delivery. . . . If it had succeeded we might have another riot like Dannemora...