Word: awl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found stretched dead on a bed. Beneath the bed was the almost naked body of the girl's mother, also murdered. In an adjoining room, pillowed in a pool of blood, stabbed through the skull eleven times by some sharp instrument such as an ice pick or an awl, was a murdered man, a roomer in the apartment...
...times a week, have a stiff formal breakfast with her. The Empress was as good a friend of Käthi Schratt as he was. One by one Franz Josef's family died, his heir Rudolf supposedly by his own hand, his wife by a shoemaker's awl in the hand of an assassin. The War finally killed the old Emperor. The pension he had given Frau Schratt the Austrian Republic promptly canceled. But she still had plenty of assets: the neat villa, jewels, antiques. Her greatest asset was what she remembered of the scandal-riddled House...
...ever use ''you-all" in the singular,* Professor Greet said that the expression is usually collective, but sometimes resembles the French vous, as when a Negro servitor might say to a single person, with no sense of intimacy: "Kin ah call a cab fo' y'awl?" Southern-born, Professor Greet speaks with a faint accent, by no means resembles an "elocution" teacher, says: "We want to make Americans speak like Americans, not like a cross between Walter Hampden and an Englishman...
...used to deposit their eggs in the shallow waters of the annual inundation. As the larvae hatched and took the air, clouds of gnats would spread over the surrounding countryside, feeding on its fauna. Only the female gnat bites, affecting the victim like the puncture of a blunt, hot awl, and leaves a dull agony in its train...