Word: daggerisms
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...drops a tear-gas bomb which causes a small dog to weep into a sponge whose added weight puts into operation a magic lantern which casts on the book's cover the likeness of a man who has stolen the wife of an angry dwarf who plunges a dagger through the picture and into the book, stopping when he strikes a pet flea who jumped between the pages to sleep when the book was laid down. The flea says "Ouch!" and kicks open the book at the right page...
...almost witless. The scientist eliminates this flaw in his discovery, and Lavond, masquerading as a dear old lady,* makes big ones into little ones in the basement of a Paris doll shop, reduces his principal enemy to a 12-in. apache doll, sends him out to stick a poisoned dagger in another man he dislikes. Sentenced to die, the remaining villain confesses that the charges that sent Lavond to prison were trumped up, clearing his name so that Lavond's daughter Lorraine (Maureen O'Sullivan) can be happy with her sweetheart Tota (Frank Lawton...
Thrust in your fatal dagger to the hilt...
What is this dagger Justice Stone sees before him? There is certainly no resentment against the Supreme Court in the country today. Can the screechings of one or two stormy petrels in the halls of Congress frighten the secure justices of the highest court of the land? Considering the attitude of the country last May when the court voided the N.R.A. there is no possibility that public opinion will now suddenly and vindictively rise up against it. Nor has the prestige of the tribunal diminished in any degree since that time...
Then, too, there are the scales, dagger, and document used by Edmund Keane in his portrayal of Shylock in the "Merchant of Venice," a candle snuffer used by Ellen Terry, and a bronze statue of Sarah Bernhardt presented to her by the magician Houdini...