Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgan, he showed him prints of the two pictures. Banker Morgan liked the first, tense pose, ordered a dozen copies. The second, Photographer Steichen's favorite, showed the subject looming characteristically massive out of Rembrandtesque shadow. A trick of light made the chair arm look like a broad, naked knife in Banker Morgan's hand. Banker Morgan looked at this picture, tore it in shreds...
...Marquis can write simply, but would rather write arabesques. When he rides his high horse, he is a long way off the ground. But sometimes he gets a startling phrase. In The Right Knife he describes a night club servant as "a pallid night-blooming waiter who was a part of the fauna of these regions, moving like a gray slug among their distempered flora...
...camp stool in the street all night, bought a good $1 ticket, sat down again in the bleachers and slept through what he had come to see. Deputy Marshal McBride of Utica, Miss, had an argument with James H. Llewellyn at a filling station; Llewellyn drew a knife: McBride shot him dead. Reporter Tsunekawa of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and Reporter Saburo Suzuki of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi sat among 105 telegraphers and sent stories by direct cable to Japan. In 15 Chicago public schools children marched two by two into assembly halls, listened to broadcasting, later told their...
...Douglas, Isle of Man, Isaac Hyman, 34, tailor, sleepwalked into his dining room, cut his throat with a saw-edged bread knife, died before waking...
...Crimson ends turned in a performance which was decidedly encouraging. Down the field under punts or passes, they were always alert and on the spot. Incipient West Point run backs were cut short by the knife-like tackles of the Crimson-jerseyed wingmen...