Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's desk, when reporters trooped into his office one day last week, lay a wicked-looking gold-handled seven-inch knife-a "yataghan," presented to him by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Said the President, waving it over his head: "I can put it in the wall at 30 paces." Replied New York Daily News Reporter Doris Fleeson: "How far down Pennsylvania Avenue can you throw...
Three days after the President had exhibited his sheath-knife, the House of Representatives voted 204-to-196 to kill his Plan to reorganize the executive branch of the Federal Government. Upon Franklin Roosevelt, the net effect was comparable to that of having his own party toss a yataghan 15 blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue and put it squarely in between his shoulder blades. Reason: unlike the battle over the Supreme Court plan, the battle over the Reorganization Bill involved no major issue except whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt was still the master of his party. Until the final votes were counted...
...citizen in Vienna's Doebling section took a pot shot from his window at Storm Troopers, missed, killed himself. In a downtown café, a Jewish diner rose, sneered "Heil Hitler!" stabbed his table companions with a butcher knife, then slashed his own throat...
...extraordinary confirmation of this theory was noted last week by Tokyo's Asahi. Ryuichi Yoshikawa, a 27-year-old painter in Osaka, begged his parents and older brother to let him marry a geisha girl. They refused. That night, while the family slept, Ryuichi got a heavy knife and methodically chopped off the heads of his father, mother, sister, brother, sister-in-law, six-year-old nephew and three-year-old niece...
...composers have ever approached Germany's great, white-haired Richard Strauss in making music onomatopoetic. In his tone poem Don Quixote, muted wind instruments reproduce with waxwork fidelity the distant bleating of a flock of sheep. In his opera Salome, while the heroine gloats, each chop of the knife that severs the head of John the Baptist clunks with horrifying realism from the orchestra pit.. Composer Strauss once boasted that he could put anything into musical terms, even a glass of water...