Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French planter. Six were sentenced by a French court to Death. Anxious that the execution should be comme il faut, reflecting that the condemned men were Orientals, the French Court sent for an Oriental headsman, obtained after some difficulty a scowling Japanese adept with his great broad blade...
...Good shots: nice little Georgie Bassett doing a minuet at the birthday party while Penrod and Sam are fighting upstairs; the In-or-In Club preparing to initiate a new member. Bad shot: Penrod whittling with his forefinger on the back of his knife blade...
...hurling is to belabor a lively little leather-covered ball down a 140-yard field into a goal. Each goal has a cross bar eight feet high; when the ball goes under the cross bar, it counts 3 points; over it counts 1. The implements, heavy shillalahs with a blade at one end, are "hurleys." Their resemblance to shinny sticks has caused hurling to be thought of as a form of field hockey. But the method in which hurleys are used suggests instead that golf is a form of hurling modified by a more cautious race...
...Gillette Safety Razor Co. busy looking up law, preparing briefs. A $1,500,000 damage suit was filed against the company by Segal Lock & Hardware Co. of Manhattan, loud in its charges that Gillette has violated anti-trust laws. And Gillette filed a suit against Segal charging infringement of blade patents...
...Pittsburgh Morris Dye, 17, swallowed two safety pins, was taken to Homeopathic Hospital. Awaiting treatment, he borrowed a double-edged razor blade from a fellow patient, wrapped it in paper, swallowed it. The blade lodged midway to the stomach, was extracted by an esophagoscope invented by famed Dr. Chevalier Jackson. The safety pins rested comfortably in Morris Dye's stomach, pending another operation...