Word: hatpin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Worcester, Mass. Small of stature, concealed within the "chess automaton," Ajeeb, at the oldtime Eden Musée, Manhattan, Peter J. Hill used to baffle and beat chess champions of international fame. Sometimes he suffered violence in his niche. One defeated chess-woman, enraged, stuck a hatpin into the mouth of the robot, wounded the body of silent Peter J. Hill...
What percentage of mankind will jab a hatpin, ice pick or nail file through a knothole or key hole when they have reason to suspect that a human eye is pressed against the exterior of such an orifice...
...Massachusetts, the state Senate defeated a bill to repeal a fine of $100 for any woman wearing a long protruding hatpin. The House had previously passed the repealer (TIME, Mar. 9) on the ground that the law was no longer necessary. The Senate argued that fashion might repeat herself...
...Softly, sibilantly, the spectre sped. An errant mouse cried out in terror, his hoarse shriek breaking the tense stillness. At the foot of the stairs a single, shining shaft of moonshine drenched the leg of a human being, severed at the knee, lying in a pool of gore. Arsenic Hatpin, gentleman capitalist, inserted a single eyeglass deftly into one of his eyes...
...Pinney and his immediate family are rather carefully than well observed. Mrs. Chapman completes her sketch in the first chapter. The rest of the book is predictable. But on she goes, stabbing her victims with repeated thrusts of her vindictive hatpin. Not that it isn't a sympathetic picture. You feel sorry for Mr. Pinney, bristling and blustering, with his eawing laugh and his spoon cracking in the mustache cup and his pocket comb and his self-inflated pride and obtrusive optimism...