Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President gone back on his promise that he, Harold Ickes, was to subdivide the funds allotted to public works under the new bill? He wanted explanations or retractions. Hastily a White House communique announced that the Press was mistaken, that only one hand should hold the cake knife and that hand belonged to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Kress 5-10-25? store on 125th Street . Into Lino Rivera's kinky, stocking-capped head popped the notion of stealing a penknife to match his pen & pencil set at home. Into the pocket of Lino Rivera's leather coat a moment later popped the 10? knife...
Proudest, craftiest and most daring of Seminole leaders was a brilliant-eyed, strikingly handsome young buck named Osceola. In 1835 the Government Indian Agent. General Wiley Thompson, summoned Seminole chiefs to sign a treaty of immediate emigration. Osceola advanced to the table, contemptuously drove his sheath knife through the paper. General Thompson threw him in chains. Osceola was shortly set free, slew General Thompson. President Jackson promptly launched the Second Seminole War. Quartering the tribe's women and children back in the swamps, Osceola led 1,600 braves in a guerrilla warfare which completely baffled the far larger forces...
...Orleans French Quarter night club, John Irving Pierce, 23, free-lance writer, handed his open knife to his companion, Marian King, 23. Miss King stabbed him in the heart. Pierce pulled the knife out of his heart, folded it and put it back in his pocket, handed the girl his wallet, said, "Will you pay the check?" With a roomful of patrons watching him in strict silence, Pierce took five steps toward the door, fell down dead. "That, gentlemen," Miss King told police, "is the way a gentleman dies...
...terms, the machine has ten "integrators," each of which is set by a hand dial to compute the effect of a variable quantity on the problem to be solved. Each dial sets two movable parts -an 8-in. stainless steel disk, mirror-smooth, and a smaller wheel with a knife edge in contact with the disk. Governed by precisely controlled friction, the speed of the small wheel is the crucial factor in solving any problem. A bevel gearing delivers that factor to the "answer table" where the factors from all the integrators are combined and the final solution appears with...