Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born my mother had been accidentally shorn of all her hair by a stupid maid. I cannot remember a time when the cutting of girls' hair did not excite and thrill me. At the San Francisco Exposition in 1915 I joined in the crowds with a safety-razor-blade and destroyed at least two dozen heads of hair, fortunately avoiding arrest although I was almost caught once. Several years later I was an entire Jack-the-Snipper epidemic in Dallas, all by myself, and was in a fair way to go all to pieces when I found the true...
...decapitation in China. When I was in China, the technique of beheading was explained to me as follows: Under the Empire, the headsman was a professional man, who used his great beheading sword in one hand, holding the handle as one would a dagger with the back of the blade extending back parallel to his forearm. Beheading was done by a single slice with the long blade instead of a chop. For a consideration from the condemned or his friends the headsman would leave a small piece of skin remaining so that the ignominy of complete decapitation was avoided. Cases...
...Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy, rivals for the favor of a stalwart young Budapestian, repaired to a clearing in a secluded wood near the city. A friend went with them, carrying a long green baize bag. Soon the clearing echoed with the harsh scrape of steel, the clear ring of blade ion cup hilt. The enraged beauties engaged in no vapid stabbing of the air. Like most able dancers, they had long taken fencing lessons. Panting, with clenched teeth and tousled hair, Mary Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy skillfully thrust and parried until a well-timed lunge in tierce pinked the Winghardy...
...York's "Jimmy" has a growing fondness for things money can buy. As William F. Kenny was ready to give his last of a multi-million nickels to help his friend Alfred Emanuel Smith, so Publisher Paul Block (Newark Star-Eagle, Brooklyn Standard Union, Toledo Blade, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Duluth Herald) seldom counts the change where his friend. Mayor Walker, is concerned. The Mayor spends more nights and mornings in the Block suite at the Ritz than he does in his personal bed on St. Luke's place...
CARL D. RUTH The Toledo Blade, Washington Bureau...