Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moros generally get along amicably with General Wood and the whites, they are forever getting into trouble with the constabulary and lesser officials, who are nearly all Christian natives. The big Moslems and the little Christians are always stepping each on the other's toes, then sticking a knife each in the other's ribs. Periodically the constabulary has to be sent...
...drives his yacht through the deadly seas. Power, command, cunning, endurance are his in the thunder and torrent. Proudly, happily weary, when dawn breaks upon conquered seas, he descends to the cabins. He would go to his wife. Outside her door he finds his Abyssinian servant, crouching, knife in hand...
Masterson did not slay either her or him. A knife is clean. She, he told her, was filthy. . . . It was fortunate for Masterson that he did not become a murderer, for a few pages ahead there had been prepared for him another, sweeter woman, in whom at last, as they say in these books, his love-quest was to find harbor...
...Like a cancer which, in its last stages, seems actually to thrive upon the knife, violations of the Volstead act may almost be said to have thrived...
...work with knife and scraper preparing the bracelet encircled arm for exhibition, Mr. Cosgrove commented on the crude jewelry and pottery with which he was surrounded...