Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latins, not Teutons, are supposed to stab each other but there was knife work aplenty in German streets last week. Stabbed, a Hamburg policeman died after two nights of agony. Stabbed in the heart at Essen, a young Fascist died on the spot Meanwhile in Cologne police beat off Fascists who bludgeoned them with iron rods. A Communist was shot dead at Strassfurt, a Fascist at Dortmund, another Communist at Duisburg. Street clashes grew so hot at Kiel that German sailors kept prudently in barracks, cancelled their announced "Parade in Celebration of the 13th Anniversary of the Scuttling...
...Agency, Mo. Jim Gidden, 88, pained by the second toe on his right foot, put his foot on a board, drove nails between the toes to hold them apart, poised a putty knife in the first joint of the pained toe, hit the knife with a hammer. After treatment by a doctor, Jim Gidden put the right second toe in a jar of salt water...
...hundred years. One of his captives he named Spitfire II because of its likeness to another black leopard that had once removed a piece of the Buck thumb. Spitfire was caged on the deck of a Chinese-manned boat bound for Singapore. Nearby sat a Chinese butcher sharpening a knife. The butcher plunged his knife into a pig's throat, Spitfire smelled blood, burst from his cage, leapt over the side. Beastcatcher Buck felt his hair-roots tingle as a shark's fin cut the water near the swimming leopard. The shark struck, threw the leopard clear...
...Bombay, Shaukat Ali, 60, 300 lb., a leader of India's Noncooperative Movement, planned secretly to marry a Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan, 25-year-old divorced wife of an Irish officer. His son, Zahid Ahmed learned of the plan, rushed to the officiating priest, brandished a knife, threatened to hack off the priest's beard (greatest possible indignity to a Moslem ) if the ceremony was performed. The trembling priest stopped the marriage. That afternoon determined Shaukat Ali got a braver priest, an armed guard, his bride...
...residents. Two of his ribs were broken when he rolled down a mountainside in the Rockies under a gasoline flatcar. He once traveled 2,000 miles to defend Mark Zarkovitch, former private in his company, accused of killing a man in a knife fight in Jasper National Park. The Speaker of Canada's House looked at the rabbits, pulled a .22 calibre target pistol from his desk, stalked them cannily 'round the Houses of Parliament, killed six, returned to preside at a session...