Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artist Poor, who spends most of his time in New City, N. Y., can never decide whether he would rather paint pictures or turn and glaze pottery. For the Department of Justice last week he had nearly completed two knife-narrow panels showing a prisoner entering and being released from a Federal penitentiary. Possibly none of WPA's artists-on-relief could have handled so difficult a space problem so easily...
...skinny, scrappy son of a Pittsburgh butcher chested up to another boy in a squabble over small change. The other boy placed the tip of a slim butcher knife to the pugnacious one's left breast, asked, "How'd you like to be stabbed," pushed hard. Unaware of the stabbing, the butcher's son walked ten paces before he collapsed from a perforation of his heart...
...Mountain 20 miles out of Decatur, the five cars carrying prisoners and officers came suddenly to a halt. Later there was no agreement as to how and why the affray started. But. in sum, Negro Ozie Powell leaned forward and sliced a deputy sheriff in the neck with a knife. The sheriff then shot off a portion of Ozie Powell's forehead. The deputy was rushed off to a physician who closed the wound with twelve sutures. Ozie Powell, still conscious and still chained between two of his fellow prisoners, was driven 70 miles on to Birmingham where...
...that automobile armed to the teeth, this car preceded in front by an automobile carrying two other armed officers of the law and followed by still another car with armed guards and with state highway patrolmen as an escort, did attempt to escape by using a pen-knife...
When inquisitive Ralph Teetor was 6, he tried to open a locked bookcase drawer with a penknife. The knife slipped. The blade jabbed into the corner of his right eye. Loss of sight in both eyes followed...