Word: gashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McLarnin, wagerers figured-the best welterweight in the U. S. against a washed-up lightweight. One minute of the first round had passed and McLarnin was landing punches as expected when suddenly Petrolle hit him with a terrific right-hand swing, opened a gash under his left eye. Through the rest of that round, and all succeeding ones, Petrolle chased McLarnin round the ring, landed accurate, hard left hooks, floored him twice in the fourth round, bashed his vainglorious, boyish face into a bloody muddle. McLarnin, half conscious, streaked with blood that oozed from his eyes, his nose...
Charles E. Belt, clerk, was the first man to respond. He leaped to the door. When he couldn't open it, he smashed his fist through the glass. He gasped at what he saw through the tinkling gash. Almost against the door lay the president, bloody, limp, dead. In a corner the vice president was clutching his side, moaning as in an agonizing contortion as he attempted to rise to his feet. The heavy rug was crumpled, a chair was overturned, bullets had ripped the mahogany desk...
...year ago a carpenter at work on the Pittsburgher Hotel, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother Richard Beatty Mellon, dropped a hammer. It fell through a large plate-glass window in the Frick Building next door. Flying glass cut a 23-inch gash, severed a vertebra, in the back of Mary Hahn, 23, cigar vendor. Last week, after the Mellon lawyers had admitted liability, an Allegheny county jury awarded Miss Hahn $102,427 in damages. The Mellons, through counsel, protested the verdict was excessive, appealed for a new trial...