Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great favor. He has a chance to show his gratitude when the brother underlines the difficulties of inter-racial marriage. Indian pictures always show holymen, elephants, snake-charmers and at least one tiger-hunt. Son of India sticks to its caste: the elephant runs amok when hit by a knife, hurled at Novarro...
...been hammering and filing on all day, a dusty French guillotine, 130 years old, which, with the Code Napoleon was a present from the Emperor to the Rhine states. At 6 a.m. Killer Kuerten walked unmoved to the machine, stretched out his naked neck. Down crashed the knife...
...swinging out behind the speeding plane like the weighted tail of a kite, while the cursing pilot struggled to stabilize the ship. At length the officer signalled to Osborne to cut himself loose and descend by the emergency 'chute strapped upon his chest. But Private Osborne had no knife. Then another plane flew up, maneuvered above Osborne while an officer lowered a sandbag to which a knife was tied. After a half-hour's effort, Osborne caught the knife, freed himself, opened his second 'chute and landed safely in a corn field. There his irate instructors found...
...dinner was announced. At the table were his daughter and son, John M. Schiff, graduate of Yale in 1925. After dinner he chatted quietly with his son, who since Jan. 1 has also been his partner in Kuhn, Loeb. About 10:30 he went to his bedroom, put his knife, wallet, loose change and other knickknacks on the dresser, went to bed. About 4 a. m. he awakened and felt a strange sensation near his heart. He arose, put on a silk dressing gown, wrapped himself in a blanket and sat by the window. It was in this position that...
...with the crops. The farm is owned and managed by no rustic curmudgeon but by a Polish girl, pretty and strong-willed Marusia. The prisoners spend pleasant months there, become members of a congenial family. Marusia falls in love with Stanislaw: it works both ways; before he can say knife he is back in the prison camp again, for Marusia has jealous and watchful friends. Then comes the Russian Revolution, Stanislaw escapes, trudges back to the farm, has one white night with Marusia before he tries to get home over the border. He will divorce his wife, arrange for Marusia...