Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convict, expert knife handler, and 12-string guitar artist styled "Lead Belly" will play to the Leverett inmates and their guests Wednesday evening in the Dining Hall...
Smart as he looks, the knife-nosed Emperor, having received Il Duce's ultimatum demanding salutes, indemnities and establishment of a neutral zone, sent down to the frontier of Italian Somaliland an Abyssinian mission with a Swedish and a Belgian military observer "to ensure fairness in establishing the neutral zone," ignored Il Duce's demands for salutes, indemnities
...happens to be Statesman Churchill's son Randolph. He went yapping out to Waver tree, a suburb of Liverpool rated as "safely Conservative" and tried to knife the regular Conservative candidate in a by-election last week by standing for election himself as an "Independent Conservative." Dashing about Wavertree, Candidate Churchill brandished banners reading "DOWN WITH THE OLD CAUCUS!" in which Father Churchill was defeated and "NO SURRENDER IN INDIA...
Though all novelists tacitly agree that their proper study is Man, some merely tickle or tattoo their subject. Serious novelists take a knife to him. Author Malraux's, Man's Fate (TIME. June 25), proved him to be of the surgical sort. Since not everyone can calmly witness the bloody business of such an operation, however earnestly and skilfully performed, many drew back from the spectacle of Man's Fate with shuddering dislike. The Royal Way will hardly please them better, though the surface excitement of its melodrama should make it a more popular performance...
Charlie Chan in Paris (Fox). "Perfect case like perfect doughnut-has hole." With this convenient hypothesis to work from, it is no trouble at all for famed Detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) to find out who threw a knife at a dancer named Nardi, who killed an unscrupulous bank "cashier, what connection both have with the forged bonds and the man who walks with a crutch. Abetted by his grinning son Lee Chan, he chivalrously establishes the innocence of pretty Yvette Lamartine, dispenses telegraphic proverbs for the benefit of a stupid confrere...