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Word: icepick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Downers were soon trotting out with arms upraised, to run a walloping, stone-pelting gantlet. Just as the fight was ending, State police appeared, drove back the mob, began cleaning up the casualties-some 50 with bruises, cuts and black eyes, one man stabbed in the belly with an icepick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Upheaval in Utopia | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...some years Malcolm Jameson, one-time chief draftsman in the U. S. Navy, felt that his present occupation of insurance salesman did not give him a full emotional outlet. At loss for a hobby, he purchased a large wooden salad bowl, heated the tip of an icepick red hot and traced on the bowl a map which he tastefully tinted with Mercurochrome. A group of Mr. Jameson's salad bowls, which he prefers to call "Segmaps," were on view in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week, priced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Independents | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...hitchhiking from Chicago. He went to call on Banker Dean, who repeated what he had written. He started to show Klavan out, walking ahead of him. He felt a light blow on his back, then a piercing pain. Desperate, depressed Sheila Klavan had stabbed Banker Dean with an icepick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Depression | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

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