Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honduran house has now been swept, dusted, tidied. A fortnight ago the National Assembly met and, without the discharge of a single gun or the drawing of knife, elected Senor Miguel Paz Barahona, President of Honduras; Senor Presentacion Quesada, Vice President...
...possible that these idealists have considered the harm they are causing? The benefits of teaching real English are obvious enough, but a mere statement of the disadvantages will dissuade those who would callously knife a tradition of American humor. Deprived of their livelihood, a score of humorists will commit hari-kari, with a jokebook in their hands and a smile on their lips. The American nation, grossly abused in its privilege of laughing at the "furriner's" English, will hasten the Pacific world into war. With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from...
...questionable principle upon which the authorities at Harvard denied Professor Baker adequate equipment, even forbade him to raise an endowment fund by outside subscription. As to library and laboratory, their liberality knows no bound short of an unbalanced budget. Undergraduates are trained to the manipulation of microscope and dissecting knife. Doctorates in philosophy are awarded for theses on the digamma in Anglo-Saxon or on the iota subscript in Greek dialect. But if young men and women are bent upon analyzing the life about them, on assembling the results of their observation in dramatic character, upon organizing it in dramatic...
...virtue himself, Stewa appropriates Jenufa's. Months go by. She gives birth to a difficulty. Jenufa's stepmother pleads with Stewa. Will he not make Jenufa an Honest Woman? No, he will not, for Laca, in scorn and spite, has slashed Jenufa's cheek with a knife that her beauty may be blemished and his brother find her fair no longer. Stew Stewa falls in love with another lady. Laca calls on the stepmother. He would marry the girl himself, he says, but damme, he cannot stomach the child. Whereupon the stepmother, on a black winter...
...questionable principle, upon which the authorities at Harvard denied Professor Baker adequate equipment, even forbade him to raise an endowment fund by outside subscription. As to library and laboratory their liberality knows no bounds short of an unbalanced budget. Undergraduates are trained to the manipulation of microscope and dissecting knife. . . But if young men and women are bent upon analyzing the life about them, or upon assembling the results of their observations in dramatic character. . . they, and the teacher who abets them, are suspect. New York Times...