Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Defense, is of more doubtful value. To hide the business of war behind a euphemism while retaining its nature is at best a well-meant subterfuge. It is pleasant to think that "war between nations is as much out of date as the torture chamber or the scalping knife," but so long as such a nation as the Japanese cling to old fashioned methods, the fact will have to be faced. It is doubtful if even this country, with its pacifistic traditions, is prepared for total disarmament. The abolition of war will hardly occur until public opinion is educated...
...monarch, set next to a likeness of Queen Victoria, betrays, it is true, a certain wistfullness in its inspiration. Yet the solution for our present problems that it offers is essentially sound: Back to Queen Victoria! A charming anecdote lightens the text. Reproved by his governess for putting his knife in his month, the Infant Prince stood on divine right. The governess was obstinate: "Kings still less put knifes in their mouth," said she, "Well, this King does," was his quick response. There should be more of this sort of thing among our children: It is the new spirit...
...electrical knife perfected by Dr. George Austin Wyeth of Manhattan received great tribute as a cancer tool. It reams out tiny holes wherein the cut of a scalpel would be brutal...
...Monday morning the Police of New York City issued the statement that the city had one of the most peaceful twenty-four hours in its history. No suicides or automobiles fatalities, nor any injuries by knife or gun were reported from Saturday evening until Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately this record was marred when a woman in Brooklyn stopped a stray bullet, the police shamefacedly admit...
...remember that at the time the Emperor was forced out of the Forbidden City, you carried a knife under your sleeve, ready to commit suicide should any mishap occur to the Emperor or yourself? What a holy and divine spirit was that, and how you have changed now into a different person...