Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boasted afterward that she was the only woman to see Dr. Gorgulov lose his head. She told how Gorgulov, his hands and feet heavily manacled, hobbled forward; how the back of the prisoner's neck was shaved "to better expose his flesh to the sharp knife of 'the widow' [guillotine]." Then ''like a flash the neck piece clamped Gorgulov into position and, before he could gasp, the knife, well weighted, fell nine feet. . . . There was no autopsy...
Following her surrender to police, and conferences with a lawyer named O'Brien, Mrs. Pollak revealed that her husband had been in the habit of mauling her when she displeased him, that she had shot ("to frighten him'') because he had come after her with a knife. Police at the apartment had discovered no knife. On second investigation of the house a lawyer named Hoffman produced a three-inch paring knife which he said he had found there. Then Mrs. Pollak's platinum-blonde cousin, a Mrs. Victoria Schultz, "eyewitness," supplied a huge carving knife. Lawyer...
Anyone who knifes a work of art is judged insane, yet every art critic has a list of art works he would like to knife. On nearly every such list is Jean Francois Millet's The Angelus, a calm brown picture of a peasant and his wife standing at prayer in the middle of a field. An ably painted picture, it is deplored because of its ubiquity on art calendars, school rostrums, candy boxes...
...political machine. Meanwhile Tammany Hall "heartily" endorsed the Roosevelt-Garner ticket and the State was startled by a report that, if ousted, Mayor Walker would run for Governor this autumn. Sheathed in this move, if made, would be something that Governor Roosevelt does not like to think about: the knife that Tammany could thrust into the back of his New York City vote for the Presidency...
...August. Less extraordinary than The Conjure-Man Dies but still appealing, appalling is Dead Hands Reaching in which Dallas Gantry returns to her small-town home of Willow Valley and finds it seething with murder. Her husband, Jurden Keye, is the meanest man in town. He gets the knife before anyone else in town but he is dead by that time anyway. A bullet killed him. A strumpet who thinks Dallas did it is murdered presently. The third victim is Jurden Keye's mean-tempered female housekeeper. Detective Brady ? mild, courteous, less loquacious than most fictional sleuths?has eight...