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...American backwoods developed men with plenty of red-blooded fighting spirit, but unfortunately furnished them with a fighting code which demanded just one retaliation for every slur on a man's name, home or country, namely, immediate and direct action with ax, gun, or flst. Where each man who was not a coward was considered equal to his neighbor, there was no discounting an insult because of the stupidity or lack of breeding in the man responsible for it. An earlier and more polished society which recognized the duelling code distinguished between affronts coming from a "gentleman", and those arising...
GLOBE THEATRE.- "Twixt ax-and Crown...
...interest in foot-ball is to be revived at Columbia. The "Ax and Coffin," a senior secret society, has also been revived after a sleep of eighteen years. - Princetonian...
...voices that grew in number as the sun sloped to the west, was extremely pleasant to hear. They are, perhaps, of the same stock as the ancient Greek frogs; at any rate, they performed the very music written by the old master of comedy - "brek-e-kek-ex-co-ax-co-ax - brek-e-kek-ex-co-ax-co-ax." - [Cambridge Tribune...
Moral. - Charges for Ax-grinding have Raised...