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Updated: June 18, 2025


Those who witnessed the incident say it was like a buzz-saw cutting soft pine. When the present administration turned out the diplomats it spared the consuls-general and consuls. It was fortunate for the State Department that it showed this self-control, and fortunate for thousands of Americans who, when the war-cloud burst, were scattered all over Europe.

He would have charged bayonets on a buzz-saw if authoritatively informed that it was required by the mysterious "regulations." The long march the 200th Ind. made after Bragg over the dusty turnpikes the first week in October, 1862, taught Si the value of a canteen. After that it was rarely allowed to get empty.

"If his bequests are conditional I shall have to accept the conditions; but, nevertheless, I am going to fight; and I am going to keep the Brightlight Electric!" Mechanically he opened the other letter now. The contents were to this effect: To My Son Upon His Losing Money in a Public Service Corporation "Every buzz-saw claims some fingers.

"Hungry as a buzz-saw" I roll into the sleepy old town of Rothenburg at six o'clock, and, repairing to the principal hotel, order supper. Several flunkeys of different degrees of usefulness come in and bow obsequiously from time to time, as I sit around, expecting supper to appear every minute.

I could do that right off my own responsibility. Need be no connection with the old man." "Bat," said the Ranger, "did you stay up here to say that to me?" "I don't know whether I did or not; but, now that I am here, I say it anyway; and I say a whole lot more don't be a bally fool and buck into a buzz-saw! Why don't you take the Senator's offer? Holy Smoke!

Then he sat up and methodically replenished the fire, kicking the dying embers together until they blazed afresh. "Jim Bowley do sing mighty sweet," he said, in disparaging tones. "Like a crazy buzz-saw, I guess. S'pose them beasties is gettin' kind o' restless. Say, Nat, how goes the time? It must be night on ter your spell." Nat sat up and drew out a great silver watch. "Haf an hour yet, pard."

The extraordinary cleverness and accuracy of his observation of those petty details that make life a thing of shreds and patches were all that distinguished his method from that of the melodramatist who makes a scene out of a buzz-saw or a waterfall, a locomotive or a ferryboat. Oftentimes the contemporary playwright follows the method suggested by Mr.

If the retail butchers are to be believed, the cow is a calf until there is no more room on her horn for rings. She seldom lives to be too old to be carved up with a buzz-saw and a cold-chisel and sold as veal.

The Countess turned back down the trail and Pierce followed her. "I'll settle this Royal," he declared, furiously. "Danny's a bad boy," Lucky Broad warned, falling into step. "If old Sam told him to hold a buzz-saw in his lap he'd do it. Maybe there wouldn't be much left of Danny, but he'd of hugged it some while he lasted." Little more was said during the swift return to the river.

Those would-be jokers seemed to know when they had taken hold of what Bobolink termed the "business end of a buzz-saw;" at any rate they were only conspicuous during the remainder of the night by their absence. Of course every one of the boys on board the two motorboats was glad when the first peep of dawn came.

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