... seven children Read their story on page 12 `One day the kids will attain an age where they can swing an axe and, like Lizzie Borden, give their parents 40 and 41 whacks, respectively.' Curmudgeon, page 5 ...

... death. Let me guess now. The Brits did it! There was also 1975's The Legend Of Lizzie Borden, the real-life story of the woman who inspired the infamous rhyme: Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; when she saw what she had done, ...

... Wallace in? The original Man Who Came to Dinner, Alexander Woollcott, all his life agonised over the guilt or innocence of Lizzie Borden, the lady who allegedly took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks and, when she saw what she had done, gave her father ...

... resemble a drool. with a Dr Crippen (a decent man, who took a reasonable objection to a Xantippe of a nagging wife); or a Lizzie Borden (who gave her mother 40 whacks and her father 41); or a George Joseph Smith (the 'Brides in the Bath' murderer not a nice ...

... gentle wisdom in the Socratic manner. One day, the kids will attain an age where they can swing an axe and, like the revered Lizzy Borden, give their parents 40 and 41 whacks, respectively. MONDAY GLORIOUS spring sunshine, and after breakfast the razor-thin ...