Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gong rang sharply, followed by a hurried bugle call, and as the ship's bell began to sound the call to fire stations. Commander McHenry, dropping his knife and fork, rushed on deck. Flames were leaping from the ventilators; the fire was already beyond control. Hastily an S. 0. S. was sent, a moment before the wireless cabin was engulfed in flames. Men from sick bay were placed in boats and lowered to the water. The rest of the ship's company were forced to the bow by the conflagration amidships...
...first Chris Olsen experienced difficulties. The density of the water destroyed perspective. He would often miss his canvas altogether. When he dropped brushes, they would float to the surface. Now he has mastered the knack of water perspective, uses a palette knife instead of a brush. To avoid chills, even in the warm Bahaman waters where he paints, he stays down only 20 minutes at a stretch, makes four or five trips a day. Sometimes Dr. Roy Waldo Miner, the Museum's Curator of Living Invertebrates, joins him, once took an under water cinema of him at work...
...bloodstained knife and a powder puff were found near the Prince body. Brushing aside the powder puff, police concentrated on the knife. In the 1820's, when pomaded romantics sniffed laudanum, read Lamartine and drank from skull-shaped mugs, a secret society known as / Carbonari (the Charcoal Burners) nourished in France and Italy. There was nothing criminal about the original members who were exiled Neapolitan Liberals, forced, like true charcoal burners, to hide in the forests. Soon they took to murdering their political opponents, and later their members were neither Neapolitan nor Liberal. Their mark was a bloody dagger...
...engineer stepped down to inspect his oil cups. There was blood on the driving wheels. Railway police started down the track. A few minutes later they found the body of Judge Prince. Several trains must have, passed over him. One ankle was tied to the track. There was a knife wound in his throat. His money was still in his pockets. But all incriminating papers had been removed from his briefcase. Next morning Mme Prince received a telegram signed with the judge's name saying that his mother's operation had been successful...
...State of Saxony, seat of the German Supreme Court, a French-type guillotine is the customary instrument of death. Putting his hand on the prisoner's arm, Executioner Goebler steered van der Lubbe to the guillotine, strapped him down, pressed a button releasing the great knife and stood back as it fell. Into a basket full of absorbent sawdust rolled the head of van der Lubbe...