Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once, when he was in the Grade Schools, the Vagabond was found carefully engraving a heart, embracing appropriate initials, on the cover of his desk. The knife is now lost, the owner of the initials is now forgotten, along with a hundred others, but what the teacher said still rings in his ears as loudly and crassly as the day when first she said it. The phrase she used is so old as to be termed a "saw", "Fools names like fools faces oft are seen in public places". Not very funny, not very new, but biting...
...upon the panels of the future? Such are the penalties of sophistication, such the trials of luxury. Men will come, remain, and depart like the seal in Bering sea and no man will know their path. And as he left the Vagabond bethought him, "Give me the days of knife and paper cutter, take back the Parietal Regulations and the thumb tacks...
Realism is the true reporter's touchstone. Cub newspapermen everywhere may with profit study the candor and simplicity with which this artist, alert and at all times objectively interested, sets down such minutiae as the differences in the cigar-smoking of Calvin Coolidge (knife and holder) and Herbert Hoover (fingernails and teeth), or the lineaments of Toscanini's left hand...
...must prove pecuniary loss; 2) money passing from wife to husband is a loan, from husband to wife a gift; 3) a deserting wife must be taken back, but one husband could not get a separation even after his wife had chopped him with a butcher knife...
...each face there was a gold-&-turquoise mask. Extraordinary objects of gold, silver, copper, jade, turquoise, coral, pearl, nacre, rock crystal, alabaster, lay ranged about. Trophy of one warrior was a human skull, richly encrusted with turquoise and shell. In the hollow of the nose was a flint knife...