Word: knife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, several truckloads of mouldy, bullet-riddled, knife-slashed clothing, taken from victims of criminal violence in the past 20 years, were hauled off for incineration from the Criminal Courts Building. Present were the bloodstained garments of Stanford White (Thaw victim) ; of Ruth Cruger; of Herman Rosenthal (Becker case) ; of Barnett Baff (poultry king shot down Thanksgiving eve, 1914) ; of five-year-old Giuseppe Varotta (drowned by kidnappers). Had the City of New York cared to do so, it could doubtless have sold these garments to morbid curiosity seekers, netted several hundreds of dollars...
Several truckloads of mouldy, bullet-riddled, knife-slashed clothing...
...hero, who has assumed the honors due a dead comrade. In China he meets the widow of his slain buddy, now any man's plaything. To discharge his debt, the hero decides to rehabilitate her by marrying her and discarding his own sweetheart, but she finds a knife is a better solution of their difficulties. Bebe Daniels is impressive in this tragic role, acting without the help of a single bathing costume...
...University of Illinois College of Medicine to make a post-mortem examination. The body of the elephant, which weighed some 3,000 pounds, had been transferred for destruction to a plant in Gary, Ind. Arming himself with a pair of rubber hip-boots and a ten-inch butcher knife, Dr. Kolodny, accompanied by two students, went to Gary. The carcass was opened, the ribs broken with an ax, the dissection begun. It was found that the elephant had an inflammation of the bowels, but the actual cause of death was a wasting of the body resulting from degeneration...
...half of which consist of documents. The most interesting are: death mask from the matrix moulded by Dr. Antomarchi, Napoleon's doctor ; a letter from Antomarchi to Vignali; the last cup ever used by the ex-French Emperor, a silver goblet inscribed with the Imperial arms; a silver knife, fork and spoon also engraved with the Imperial arms; a shirt, handkerchiefs, pair of white breeches, white pique waistcoats; Church vestments from the Longwood Chapel, some marked with the Imperial cypher; last, the most gruesome relic, a mummified tendon taken from the ex-Emperor's body during the postmortem...