Word: knife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major in a room above the bar. When he comes out of this room, the Major looks over the banisters at tru café, full of the black soldiers of his regiment, drinking and laughing and watching a Senegalese Negro, who, in red breeches, is dancing, with a knife in his hand...
...effective in a play as in a prize-ring, Author Rideout does more than answer his suspense. The prancing Senegalese is a faithful friend to Israel Dubois; seeing that his friend and the officer have bad blood between them, he starts for the Major with his knife, and Israel Dubois, who has drawn gun to shoot his white master, feels the tug of an ancient loyalty and kills his black friend instead...
...Upper Finlay River, British Columbia, one J. Omera, a trapper, suffered frostbite in the four small toes of his right foot. Soon he observed that his bitten toes had become infected. Since there was no surgeon at hand, J. Omera seized a kitchen knife and whittled away for three days until his toes were off. Then he bound up his bloody foot and tramped to Prince George, where a surgeon said he had performed the amputation so efficiently that no further treatment was necessary...
Governor: "But he found where to put the knife, didn...
...with a knife fell upon the dummy's throat and gashed it open. He then splattered a red fluid (mercurochrome) around the wound. The Birming-hamians howled for joy. Some fired revolver shots into the "corpse." Others kicked it, spit at it. Others got a rope, noosed it, dragged it around the hall for a hanging...