Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dagger. Naval officers nodded approvingly when the deathless spirit of Japanese fanaticism was shown again last week by one Tokuji Miyata, 26, bespectacled student of political science. With a dagger in his sleeve Student Miyata banged on the door of Admiral Takeshi Takarabe whom most other Japanese Navy officers consider a traitor because he was a negotiator of the London Naval Treaty with its 5-5-3 ratio...
...CARNIVAL MURDER - Nicholas Brady-Holt ($2). Her throat cut by a dagger, the Fat Lady lies murdered in her tent. Rev. Eb. Buckle sloshes about in the rain, helping the constabulary. Beer, boiled beef and a bucket expose both the freak racket and the killer...
...STRANGE MURDER OF HATTON, K. C.-Herbert Adams-Lippincott ($2). An honest oldster, dead of a dagger in his eye, upsets a houseparty. Thereafter follow arson, blackmail and attempted murder...
...common practice to read all of the footnotes first? Or do you find it better to read the article through to the end and then to pick up the footnote the asterisk or dagger refers...
TIME footnotes are appended, whenever possible, to ends of paragraphs, or at least ends of sentences, so that they can be read at natural breaks or pauses in the story, like asides in a play. The recommended procedure is to read each footnote as its asterisk, dagger or double asterisk appears. Any able reading eye should then be able to find its way back to the point of digression in the main text. Less nimble eyes can be aided by staking out the point of digression with forefinger or pencil. Readers too engrossed by the main discourse to break...