Word: knife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discomfiting distinction between a "paper knife" and a "paper cutter...
...Wanted a "Paper Knife...
Swinnerton has tried his best to spend some money since his arrival. He finally succeeded, the other evening, in getting rid of what he calls "one hundred and fifty cents." He found it quite easy to get around in Manhattan until he asked for a "paper knife." No one seemed to be able to supply him with what he needed. Finally he was informed that what he wanted was a "paper cutter." He was immediately relieved and carried this ivory implement about with him all day. He has been in town only a week and he has met "everyone," from...
...screen, and the audience has contented itself with a passively vicarious thrill. Recently, even, melodrama has slopped over on to the stage producing several bundred more unjustifiable homieides at which the audience has crected its small hairs in horror. But with the possibility of having a mysterious knife thrust among one's ribs for inadvertent observations on the picture, even a news reel of the Coney Island bady parade would become interesting, and the more the subtitles, the more thrilling the picture would be. But such dreams seem doomed. The prosaic fine is more lawful than the glamorous murder...
...decapitation and the missing teeth were carried away with the heads. That the heads of the Tzar and his family were removed is said to be proved "beyond doubt," as ropes, which were around the necks of the bodies, were cut in several places, thus showing that a knife had been used in severing the necks...