Word: knife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other curious cures have been reported from Russia; from Jugoslavia. They remain unsanctioned. To date medical authorities recognize only Xray, radium, the knife. Wise persons remember, on hearing spectacular sagas of carcinoma cures, that nature has a way of being her own healer. Just as the lumpy tumor arises, reason unknown; so it may occasionally be reabsorbed, reason unknown...
Those sacks that you see the natives carrying along the white, beautiful roads on Sunday morning contain, sometimes, cocks. . . . And, what about it? There is no doubt that you will find the same flask of bitter liquor, the knife, volleys of cheers and curses, and many other things in many another American sport. Cockfighting is one of their sports and they will stick to it, same as Americans stick to theirs...
...Bess's pardon could not be revoked. But whether he was an injured innocent or a scheming black scamp, jail promised to continue his lot. There was a warrant out for his arrest on another charge. He had, they said, attacked a fellow prisoner with a knife...
Forced to land in the wilds, what will the prudent aviator rejoice if he has remembered, regret if he has forgotten? Pilot George H. Buck of Idaho, last week, prepared a list. Useful cargo: i carrier pigeon, i loaf of bread, i big knife, i canteen of water, i ham, i shotgun, i six-shooter, i axe, i motor generator to supply light...
...stags at the party chased them from time to time: there was a regrettable fracas when one of the latter, finding himself next a small female with a loud voice, attempted to stuff his handkerchief down her throat and cut off her hair, perhaps her head, with his pocket knife. An alderman took action and the party progressed without further untoward incident until the time came for eating...