Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when one Sergeant J. B. Duvall, guarding prisoners in a Parchman, Miss., convict camp, whipped Negro-Convict Shepherd. Bruised, angry, the black convict entered the Duvall home, attacked Ruth Duvall, 18, onetime beauty-contest winner. Interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sergeant Duvall, the Negro took a butcher knife, cut the Sergeant's throat, then plunged the knife down the throat he had just slashed. Next he struck the body with an icepick, hitting the back of its head so violently that its eyeballs popped out. Finally he left, taking Ruth Duvall with him. Some 30 hours later...
Once, taking a dislike to the music critic's hair, he cabled: "Tell Meltzer to cut his hair." Further exchanges of cables found Meltzer with hair still uncut. Bennett cabled: "Send him to St. Petersburg...
...Liberty cut air funnels toward San Juan, Porto Rico. From that point a tangential trip was made to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Governor Waldo E. Evans played host. Bewailed was the lack of famed Virgin Island rum, but St. Thomas is U. S. territory. Back in San Juan, Publisher Patterson and Daughter Alicia paid a call on Governor Horace M. Towner, who still hears hurricanes in his ears. During the following evening some gasoline floating on the harbour water exploded. Engineer Sutter was blown off the nose of the Liberty. Radioman Roe came hurtling out of the cabin...
...Indian skaters, who have presented a formidable front to all opponents so far this season, will be greatly handicapped by the loss of Fryberger, crack wingman and one of the leading scorers during the last two campaigns, who is suffering from a cut tendon. The Dartmouth six thus far has suffered but one defeat, that at the hands of Yale, but this setback came after much of the scoring punch had been extracted from its attack through the loss of Fryberger. Prior to this it had twice turned back Boston College and McGill and battled Toronto...
This is all that any Congressman needs to know about the mathematics of apportionment in order to protect himself and his state against any injustice in the matter of representation. There is a short-cut process of computation used by the experts in the Bureau of the Census to turn out, in two or three hours, a correct apportionment of any number of representatives on the basis of any given populations of the states; but this is a matter of technical detail. The result is the important thing, and the result can always be checked up, in case...