Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children in Colorado who for some reason tested too high. Some questions had to be discarded. Tester Terman found, for instance, that a picture of a cat with two legs did not always seem absurd to smart children. Nor could they agree sufficiently on: What can scissors and knife do that spoons cannot? What can cat do that dog cannot? What can sun do that moon and stars cannot? Chief worry of Tester Terman, besides that of having any of his 258 questions published and thus made easy for young newspaper and magazine readers, is that the Stanford-Binet...
...caught a hacking cough by posing in the nude, was given a check to keep him three months in southern France by John Reed's widow, Louise Bryant. He gave up a job in Rex Ingram's Nice movie studio after chasing a co-worker with a knife, and wrote his sensational novel Home To Harlem. In Morocco, McKay's next stop, he liked everything except the French authorities, who asked him to leave. But even in Africa he was pursued by whites. Negrophile Nancy Cunard wrote to him, asked him to contribute to a Negro anthology...
...Crockett, Calif., David Locke was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail for chaining his nine-year-old daughter to a bed, flaying her with a belt and hurling knife at her because she was "a virtual maniac...
...driving. He was Frank C. Monaghan, a 64-year-old Uniontown hotel man. The detective took the old man's wheel. The district attorney drove ahead, returned when he saw that the second car was not following. He found the detective staggering down the road, bleeding from a knife wound. Frank Monaghan was hauled to police headquarters for questioning. There that night he died, of "heart disease superinduced by acute alcoholism," according to the coroner's report...
...Angeles last week had a perforated brain almost as bizarre as Berkeley's. Someone drove a knife into the head of one Frank Hill, Negro, and broke off the handle (see cut). The victim's skull was so thick that the surgeons could not pull out the blade without wriggling it, and wriggling would tear his brain irreparably. The surgeons therefore sawed the man's skull around the blade, lifted bone and blade together, expected uneventful recovery...