Word: dagger
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...dagger of such an undertaking is not that it will fall to please those who do not like their Dickens, but rather, that it will irritate these who do. Speaking for the latter group of movie-gooier, I can reassure them that their author has proved himself excellent movie-timber...
...world's most violent people. They kill strangers for a small breach of etiquet. When Afghan kings really dislike a man, they boil him in oil or strangle him with chains. The only possessions an Afghan keeps clean are his rifle, his sling of cartridges, his short dagger and his bayonet sword...
...France and Italy. There was nothing criminal about the original members who were exiled Neapolitan Liberals, forced, like true charcoal burners, to hide in the forests. Soon they took to murdering their political opponents, and later their members were neither Neapolitan nor Liberal. Their mark was a bloody dagger, left beside each of their victims. If Albert Prince was killed by such as these they were still at large last week, despite a reward of 140,000 francs for their capture...
...best portraits in the show were of Mrs. Peggy Bacon Brook. Very much an artist in her own right, dynamic, sharp-nosed Peggy Bacon is a famed U. S. caricaturist with a sly habit of ridiculing herself more savagely than any of her sitters. Her verse has a dagger-like point that wounds and wins. Always the gentleman, Husband Brook endows his wife's portraits with polite dignity and even a certain beauty...
...Hell drawings of note: "The Idiot Giant War," an obscene, pinheaded, hog-faced beast with ostrich feathers in his rump, gulping fistfuls of men from a great bowl ; "Trying to End it All," a pale and flabby Hellion, who has just slashed ineffectively at his nude paunch with a dagger...