Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guard suddenly became aware of one Joe Fatigate, 25, habitual brawler, at the far end of the hall. From Joe Fatigate's forehead projected the bone handle of a penitentiary table knife. The 4-in. blade of the knife was neatly buried within the man's brain...
...More than half a century ago visionary San Franciscans, irked by the scarcity of their water supply, began to talk of a Hetch Hetchy reservoir. From the wild and inaccessible canyon 3,500 ft. above sea level, water would need no pumping on its course to the city. The knife-gash gorge at its outlet was ideal for damming. Thirty-three years ago this week San Francisco asked the U. S. Department of the Interior for permission to build in Yosemite Park. For a decade successive Secretaries of the Interior backed and filled on the Hetch Hetchy project. President Taft...
...hindrance to the Press. With elaborate codes of ethics pompously drafted and adopted by press conventions, City Editor Walker has little patience. "Newspaper men's codes are under their hats, not in the rule books. There are two commandments: do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade." On female reporters, Stanley Walker is eloquent. He recites the familiar blanket indictments, "some outrageously prejudiced and others based on sad experience": "They are slovenly in their habits of mind. . . . They won't look up names and facts. The observant editor feels that if they were housewives...
...rails and his body mangled by a passing train. The music roll that he used for a briefcase was found about 30 yards away, rifled of its contents, together with his keys, his money, and a scattered flurry of visiting cards. There was also a big clasp knife, stained with his blood. Chemical analysis showed that it was the thickened blood of a person already several hours dead...
...anti-Tashnag spectators. There was none. Found guilty of first-degree manslaughter were Defendants Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. They faced prison sentences up to 20 years. Found guilty of first-degree murder with Death as the penalty were Defendant No. 1 who held the butcher knife, Defendant No. 2 who held the Archbishop...