Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, a hard-pressed butcher set out a sign: "What Have I Got? I Got Cow's Feet...
Cutup. In Roscoe, Calif., John Honeycutt hacked his wife to pieces with a butcher knife...
Hiding High. In Salt Lake City, Detectives Stanley Butcher and E. J. Steinfeldt went hunting for two teen-age truants, found them perched on top of a church steeple...
...addition to oil, Anglo-Norwegian whalers hunting near their home ports hope to bring back whale meat for butcher shops, boast that a new method of quick freezing makes it as tender and tasty as beef...
...evening but spoils the play. Until the Senator turns so viciously on Brett, he is portrayed as an unthinking -but not at all unfeeling - reactionary. Hence, the authors suddenly seem as much out to frame him as he is out to frame Brett. Time & again, in fact, they butcher character in order to build up plot. Result: their melodrama, which could have vivified their social drama, merely vitiates...