Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of course the Somalis prepared for knife play. Retiring down the pier, pretending to disperse, they telephoned to blackamoors across the Tyne who presently swarmed over in ferryboats. Only English newspapermen covered what next happened, and they conceived it their duty to be brief and vague. All despatches from the scene were studiously played down by British editors. Example: "Several Englishmen and two Somalis were gravely injured by knives and razors. . . . The whole police force of North Shields became engaged and was forced to charge time and again before quiet was restored. Even then the police were able with...
...native-made chests of cedar and bulky presses, all loaded with the 5000 specimens, the colectors felt repaid for their hours of horse-back travel and forest excursions on foot, where it was generally necessary to cut a way through tangled vegetation with a machete, the typical, sword-like knife of the New World tropics. But the physical hardships were almost negligible. Thanks to the unstinting hospitality of large land-owners, Harvard's representatives enjoyed many comforts and courtesies on their visits to sugar farms, cattle ranches, and coffee fincas...
...impressed into celluloid to emerge upon the screen in almost recognizable form. This evening, as a part of its "Review Week" program, the University Theater offers a last opportunity to see the loving brother triumphant, the noble innocent acquitted, and the guilty confounded in one dramatic toss of the knife. The popularity of the screen version lies in an ingenious plot, ably unravelled by Norma Shearer and the competent Lewis Stone. Its difficulties lie in its adaptation from the original play. The lack of variety in scene and the preponderance of long speeches, compensated on the legitimate stage...
June Day, excitable Manhattan and Paris night club entertainer, went to Manhattan's Independent Artists exhibit (TIME, March 10) to see her portrait by Alfred H. Maurer. Indignant at the impressionistic rendition of her charms, she seized a knife from a bystander, slashed at the picture, screaming: "I'll show that bum. . . . That guy couldn't even paint a barn!" Said offended Artist Maurer: "I didn't let her see it. I told her I would surprise her with it. It seems that I did. What did a night club singer expect, a madonna?" Replied Miss Day: "I never looked...
...when informed that the dour gentleman in hip boots was about to foreclose the mortgage. Principal among the actors is Tokyjiro Tsutsui of Kyoto. Osaka and Nagoya, who stalks about in the dark robes of "The Shadow Man" and finally commits harakiri with a four-foot knife...