Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driven in an army truck to Cantho cemetery. Dressed in black, his waist-length hair now cut short, Ba Cut was led to the place of execution. Only then did he discover that his plea for a firing squad had been rejected; before him loomed the shining blade of a French guillotine...
...walked resolutely forward, placed his body on the execution platform. As dawn came to Cantho cemetery, the blade swished down and General Ba Cut's head rolled into one basket, his body into another...
...Counts of Toulouse ruled Southern France for centuries, but nothing in the life of his heroic forebears became the Toulouses so much as the gallantry with which the disfigured dwarf made of himself a gay, broken blade in Paris. He never developed the cripple's defense mechanism of a sweet nature; instead he swaggered through the world on toddler's legs. He drank big men under tables as high as his proud chin. When he closed his eyes, he experienced the horrors of alcoholic hallucination, but with his eyes open, Count Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec saw with...
...went over the side into the noisome drink. As the vessel was cut loose from its moorings, the other guests, led by the huzzahing duke, chucked hats, umbrellas, dead champagne bottles, blossoms and most of the boat's lifebelts to the dunked two. At midnight the royal gay blade cruised on to another debutante party. After some frenzied jitterbugging, he hollered: "Let's have fun! I'm a bit fed up with being told what to do!" He bawled for more champagne, got it, was soon teetering along a narrow parapet, 40 ft. above the street...
When it was all over Lamb counted his costs ($35,000), licked his wounds and bravely talked of next year. But even in defeat, he drew little sympathy. Editorialized his home-town Toledo Blade:"Here in Toledo, where Mr. Lamb's personality and methods have not won him quite the esteem which the Seiberlings seem to enjoy in Akron, the prevailing view will be that it couldn't have happened to a more deserving fellow...