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...Force's first mission was Kiska, where two regiments went ashore in rubber boats with instructions to use nothing but their icepick-shaped stilettos on the Japs. There were no Japs there, but the Force made the most of it, learned more about living and marching in the field, refused to be tempted into "trigger-happy" firing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: The Black Devils | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...turns his attention temporarily away from purely pecuniary sinning. Charley Grapewin, a crooked lawyer, spends all his time drinking a sickening mixture of scotch and milk until Lloyd Nolan, a rat of the second water in the inevitable role of a gangster, picturesquely stabs him to death with an icepick in a Turkish bath. A few double-crosses and prison breaks fail to thrill, except once when Tyrone almost gets killed. The most exciting scene in the movie, in fact, is one in which Dotty uses a bit of a dance as an excuse to assume a very effective substitute...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

...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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