Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apartment owned by the Negro's wealthy parents. Ella, the white wife, will love her husband but hate his race. Her nerves will run out to insanity as he struggles in vain to pass his examinations at the Law School. She will prowl about with a carving knife and interfere with his study. She will go quite mad. He, finally despairing, but still adoring her, will play games with her as he did when they both were little tots. Neither of them will have been able to stand the gaff. So, curtain...
...Spiller and Frazier published the results of eight operations, of which six successfully ended pain. In two cases, some pain fibres escaped the knife. Said Surgeon Spiller: "It requires on the part of the operator a visualization of the microscopic anatomy of the cord and a realization that a slight misplacement of the incision may cause motor-paralysis of one or both of the lower limbs...
...caused uneasiness, but there has been no panic, nor anything that can be described as such. The sky is not black with pound notes winging their way across the Atlantic, but doubtless much investment is being done abroad. However, world trade and British prosperity are balanced on a knife edge, and very little might turn the balance either way. Indiscreet speech by prominent members of the Government or failure of the Government to disavow extremist speeches might check the recovery of trade and confidence." Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, Kt, G.C.B., G.B.E., P.C., LL.D., aged 49, was born in India...
...UP?Carolina Mountain life cut with the biting knife of realism...
...shawls are faced with fearful disappointment. The tragedy of the play is quite unrelieved; it is almost Russian. The plot depicts the domestic chaos consequent upon the return from the wars of Fidel and his attempted seduction of his sister-in-law. His brother, her husband, finally slips a knife into Fidel's left ventricle. The acting is inadequate despite the presence of the more or less heralded Nance O'Neil. The single satisfactory feature is the farmhouse setting...