Word: blade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Listen, rat! Who do you think you're talking to anyway?" So saying he pulled a huge knife from his pocket. HE struggled vainly for some minutes to open the blade. Finally he hurled it through the window sending a shower of shattered glass around the room. All the other boys and girls laughed. They thought Burlingame as pretty funny...
Czechoslovak glass makers whose low prices have long given competitors World headaches announced last week that the North Bohemian Works have perfected "glass razor blades, supple and sharp as steel." A glass razor blade, the Czechoslovaks boasted, achieves at last the ideal toward which all safety razor makers have been striving: It positively cannot be re-sharpened...
...writer was 17, he did this twice, once on a guppy, once on a swordtail. You will probably receive many letters in this same vein from other amateur gynecologists. The instrument used in the case of the writer's fish was the split fragment of a razor blade...
...begs to be made better looking. Instead, Lugosi makes him uglier still, enslaves him by promising to do a better job next time. Spurned by the girl and reproached by her father, Lugosi decides to torture them to death with such a Poetic device as a slowly descending, knife-blade pendulum. In the end he is thwarted by Karloff who chooses to be shot rather than let Miss Ware be crushed to death in a room whose walls are slowly coming together...
...cringing figures in suits of coarse sacking were led out, their hands chained behind their backs. Headsman August Gröber, 67 and spry for his age, advanced in impeccable full dress exuding Eau de Cologne. An artist, as are all great executioners, Gröber keeps his blade on ice until the last second, figures that blood has a tendency to congeal on an iced blade and hence will not spout on his boiled shirt. Swish-clump! Swish-clump!-two heads rolled in the sand. One of them, declared Nazis with more exuberance than exactitude, was "the head...