"Ax to Grind"

[Sam Clements]

And, to get you a little closer--  (Fred--am I correct you can read
Newspaperarchive?)

The story appears in the "Gettysburg Sentinel, 28 Nov. 1810, p.1, col. 2,
saying the story was reprinted from "The Luzerne Federalist."

In the search box, I used  the words grind and axe, and searched before
1820.

sam clements


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Shapiro" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:46 AM
Subject: "Ax to Grind"


> The OED states the following:
>
> "to have axes to grind (orig. U.S. politics): to have private ends to
> serve [in reference to a story told by Franklin]"
>
> Can anyone supply any details as to where the Franklin story referred to
> here is published?
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
>
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