Word: knifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambush. The first victim to appear has a spear thrown at him. Ifugao etiquet demands that the one who throws the fatal spear gets the head. Other warriors are supposed to stand by and watch while the killer dances over the fallen body, slashes the neck with his long knife, wets his fingers in the spurting blood and tastes it. Actually headhunters often become too enthusiastic, turn the ceremony into a free-for-all. Head-taking, like scalping among American Indians, adds war-glory to the individual warrior. In addition, heads bring soul-stuff into the tribe, which benefits everyone...
...Examiner. He plucked the idea from a small news item from Copenhagen telling of the broadcast of a murder trial there. Writer Kenneth Ellis of the American's radio-news staff wrote the scenario, packed into it the stuff of which city editors' dreams are made: the knife thrown at Dancer Dolores Divine as she walks to the witness chair; the disappearance of the "mystery gun" from counsel's table while the courtroom lights are switched off (each incident occurring just at the close of a day's session, of course). To make it suitable...
...report that Vincenzo Marchietelli, chef of Congressman Sol Bloom of New York, had chased Col. Marco Pennaroli, military attache of the Italian Embassy with a knife after an argument over Fascism, caused Chef Marchietelli to brood. When he brooded he became insane. When he became insane he was committed to the Gallinger Hospital, Washington...
...Yonkers, N. Y., Nellie Kotelez killed her husband with a potato knife because, peeved, he had not spoken to her for five months...
Electro-Surgery, the use of a cauterizing knife, is as far ahead of scalpel surgery "as the modern electric tram is ahead of the lumbering horse car."-Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly, Baltimore. It permits elegant excision of cancer ramifications and delicate areas of the brain. It may permit operations of the spinal cord. But President-elect Allen Buckner Kanavel, Chicago, pointed out that coagulation caused by the cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them...