Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little girl. Seven times in the past three weeks little girls, all between 3 and 6, had been found in meadows and clumps of forest stabbed in the stomach and bleeding badly. A horrid boy, they said, who grunted like an animal had attacked them with a knife, sucked their blood and disappeared. Two of the little girls bled to death before they could be hospitalized...
...grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when the real Princess intervenes. Thirty Day Princess is light entertainment, competently acted. Typical shot: Nancy lulling the publisher's suspicions that she is also the Princess by chewing gum eating with her knife...
...wind instrument. They called it an hydraulus because air was fed into its pipes by a water contrivance. In the Seventh Century Pope Vitalian recommended an organ for churches with a view to improving the singing of congregations. The first keys were as big as the treadle of a knife-grinder's machine. Strength was the first requisite of a player, who struck at the great slabs with his fist, had the title of "organ-beater." Early in the 15th Century pedals were introduced because the bass keys were so stiff that it was easier to stand on them...
...condemned to death, the Schmidt sisters to ten years at hard labor. And so last week he went to meet Mme Guillotine before the Town Hall of Aix-en-Provence. The end of drama was not yet. Strapped quickly to the board, he was pushed beneath the knife. The executioner tripped the lever, the triangular blade crashed down-and jammed, half way down. "Imbeciles!" bellowed Murderer Sarret. "Be quick can't you!" For ten minutes he lay with his head on the block while perspiring, embarrassed workmen argued and tinkered. Executioner Deibler clutched at his weak heart. Then...
...found dead in the streets one grey morning, he thought it advisable to go to Madrid. Here he drank and fought, observed the ritual of singing under windows, gained greater fame for this than for his occasional painting. On another morning he was found in the gutter with a knife sharp as an etcher's needle in his back, was smuggled to Rome by friendly bullfighters...