Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noted here that apart from all the other hardships endured by women in this war the small humiliations of shopping have been the most difficult to bear. N. Gubbins, Esq. can remember a day when his life partner smiled up into the face of a butcher and begged for a bone to make some soup. When he replied : 'I believe you had a bone a fortnight ago. There are other people who want bones besides you,' there were murmurs of approval from other women in the shop and the life partner of N. Gubbins, Esq., retired in confusion...
...Assistant Superintendent W. S. Neil knocked & knocked at the Scott door. He got no answer. Breaking in, he stumbled over an assortment of bloody articles: an ax, a hammer, two butcher knives, a shotgun barrel-and James Scales's discarded clothes. The bodies of Superintendent Scott's dying wife and dead 19-year-old daughter lay on the floor...
...cheap bars of Los Angeles' tenderloin he gulped his whiskey neat. After two days his hand was unsteady. But even after he bought the butcher knife, nobody could tell what he was thinking. When a woman smiled at him over a drink, he smiled back. She was a big, young woman, with lipstick smeared too heavily on her lips. Her name was Virgie. She was married, but her husband was away, and she liked a good time. He held her arm, gallantly, as they crossed the street in the rain and dark to the old Barclay Hotel...
Nobody Knows. Otto Wilson watched the woman take off her chartreuse suit and fold it neatly across a chair. When he hit her she fell across the bed. He choked her until she stopped breathing; then pulled her to the floor. After he took the butcher knife from his coat pocket he lighted a cigaret and drank from a bottle of whiskey. Then he knelt, knife in hand...
...starting lineup against Brown: g, Harshman; 1b, Dean; rb, Day; rh, Butcher; ch, Mavor; lh, Glidden, or Guild; ir, Blanco; cf, Genn; il, Pearson; ol, Corrigan...