Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surgeons in St. Louis and other cheerleaders who began a fortnight's discussion of tumors at the New York Academy of Medicine last week-that cancer is curable if recognized very soon after its first development in the body. Then it can very often be eradicated by knife (steel or electric), X-ray or radium. Declared Dr. Franklin H. Martin, director-general of the College of Surgeons and organizer of their cancer symposium: "If all cases of cancer could be diagnosed early and treated promptly in their incipiency, the annual death rate from the disease, now recorded...
...Florida law it should be 3 ft. broad. There should be ventilation. Arthur Maillefert. called "Jersey" by his prison mates, had passed the previous evening in the sweatbox naked and inside a barrel out of which he tried to gnaw. He had also used a trusty's knife in an attempt to liberate himself. Four times during his stay at Sunbeam he had tried to escape. Once, when being returned in a police car, he plunged into the Halifax River, swam free in spite of handcuffs...
Giovanni Morosini always loved the feel of a good knife. He built a special armory near the main house and filled it with morions, pikes, arquebusses, rapiers, burganets, daggs, arbalests, cabassets, lobstertailed salades, crossbows and Courlandish tschinkes. His stable was the pride of the Hudson. To the day of his death the Doge of Elmhurst cursed the automobiles that frightened his horses and sent his smart Brewster phaetons into ditches...
...Gavardo, Italy, having signed promissory notes for several friends. Giuseppe Mazzolini, 36. was obliged to pay them when his friends defaulted. When the last defaulted, he laid on a table the hand with which he had signed the notes, pulled out a pruning knife, hacked the hand...
Died, Sir Henry John Forbes Simson, 60, obstetrician to England's royal family; of heart disease; in London. In the middle of an operation he dropped his knife, staggered, shortly died...