Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their tails "(With a carving knife...
...cried. "My money is in my left trouser pocket." They wrenched $25 out of my pocket and fled to the roof of the house. I found a policeman, was able to identify one Charles Logan when he was captured. Said I: "I was lucky." Charles Logan had an ugly knife.'" Edward of Wales: "In London smart young dancing men have been observed smoking 'midget cigarets,' half standard size. The fashion was attributed to me under headlines: 'BETWEEN-DANCES FAGS MADE TO PLEASE WALES.' I have a midget cigaret case." Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South...
...ready to kill that person without hesitation, drink two bottles of beer afterwards, go to the cinema, and then give myself up to the police." From her small purse Zina Jukova produced a bit of paper and a pencil. Pursing her lips, she wrote. "Draw that long Finnish knife you have, Sergei!" she laughed. "Here is your paper." Trembling, Student Slovochotov drew his knife. The girl, still laughing, unbuttoned her bodice with one hand, threw back her head, and pouted her lips to receive a kiss. . . . Some hours later Sergei Slovochotov gave himself up to the police. Before that...
...Berlin, one Dr. Troska took a sharp knife, placed it on a piece of beefsteak, exerted a pressure of 800 pounds, thereby calculated the amount of energy necessary for each human chew of meat. A dog, said he, expends energy equal to 3,200 pounds in biting through a bone. Scientists scoffed, said that Chewer-Experimenter Troska was wasting his time...
...pretend to pitch, up again- ah, the split!") An enemy cut his tight rope; he fell; killed two people. Worse, it tore his painting forearm open. ("You see the scar? Like a shark bite!"). He roars anecdotes about his old pal,Jesse James; tells that his back shows 200 knife and bullet wounds, and that there are two dozen bullets...