Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jumped out with my knife to put the wounded deer out of misery* and called to Berggreen to come and help me. In a fit of rage he swung his big knife and said he was going to kill me first. I was too frightened to report the case...
...century. The plot: Curly (Franchot Tone of Hotel Universe and Pagan Lady), a happy broncobuster, woos and wins Laurey (June Walker), who mortally fears & hates a psychopathic farm hand (Richard Hale) in her employ. During the wedding party Mr. Hale ignites a hayrick, falls on his own knife in a scuffle with Mr. Tone. Mr. Tone is held for questioning but escapes to his new wife. There the play ends, with the cowboys singing "Green Grow the Lilacs" offstage...
...even Shakespeare could make much of a play out of Revamper Lewisohn's Shylock. For Lewisohn has romanticized Shylock's melodramatic figure, gentled him down into an unconvincing shadow of his former self. You learn that Antonio's pound of flesh was safe all the time. Shylock's "knife would not have gone very deep into the bosom of his adversary.'' He would only have nicked him, got him good & scared, then shown the Christian dog he knew as much as Portia about the quality of mercy...
...Boston's ablest legal minds. He had entered Harvard in 1867 (among his classmates were Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Bishop William Lawrence, Charles Joseph Bonaparte). Unwary hazers remembered his stocky, undaunted figure: once he beat them off with upraised chair in one hand, menacing clasp-knife in the other. Two years later he was expelled for his pranks, went to Boston and passed his bar examination. The Harvard faculty invited him back. "Go to hell!" was his booming défi. He grew a long black beard, practised law. At 36 he was president of the Massachusetts Senate...
Since William Clark (Philadelphia) perfected surgery with the clean-burning electric knife and needle, many surgeons are now using the electric cautery in preference to what Howard Atwood Kelly (Johns Hopkins) in Cancer calls "knife & fork" surgery. The cautery reaches places which the scalpel cannot touch...