Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best, are forbidden firearms). From the very first he saw excitement. In 1888 the Whitechapel District of London was being terrorized by the murders of "Jack the Ripper." Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found murdered and mutilated with a knife. No one ever saw "Jack." The C. I. D. and Policeman Wensley gradually caught his accomplices but "Jack the Ripper" never was found. Timid English women still stiffen and pale when strange men address them in Whitechapel...
...Turner threatened court action. For that she was strung up by the heels, her clothes drenched with gasoline, wrapped in sudden flames. She was pregnant at the time. "Mister, you ought to've heard that nigger wench howl!" When the flames went out, a man stepped up with a knife and made sure her unborn child died...
Ivan Skripnik took up the knife. Gregory Romashevsky said: "I am strangely torn between the desire of my soul for heaven, and the desire of my body for earth. Please pray once more...
Ivan Skripnik slowly laid down the knife, prayed again. Gregory Romashevsky's mental conflict ceased, he desired to live. Springing up, he plunged the sacrificial knife into Ivan Skripnik and also into Igor Serednitzky. Both were dead when Soviet police arrived...
Once when Gilbert Stroud, aged 7, was fidgeting with a spoon and fork at table, his stepmother, nerve-wracked from maternity trouble, slapped him with the carving-knife. That, says Author Mannin, was the genesis of 1) a scar on his wrist, 2) his animosity towards women. Aged 10, when his friend's mother embraced him he wriggled out of it. Aged 20, off at the War, when the Stroud blood in him got hot for women, his mind remained cold as cash. Aged 25, he discovered that he wanted a fortune and a blonde wife, a maker...