Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes except the big yellow eyes of the foxes, whom the two men managed to knife or choke in silence, witnessed the bloody scene...
...Germany, last week. One of his patients suffers from Pica. Pica is the depraved appetite which the mentally unbalanced, the hysteric and the pregnant often develop. Like magpies (Pica is Latin for magpie), they eat all things they encounter. Dr. Fuchs' patient, a man, has swallowed needles, nails, knife blades, spoons, a screwdriver handle, a beer seidel handle, coins, matches, all with no apparent harm. Once he drank sulphuric acid, another time lysol. He is allowed no clothes with buttons. Last week he discovered a new source of false food, his fellow inmates. He would pounce upon an unwary...
...chief of the greatest surface naval power, Prime Minister MacDonald secured the assent of President Hoover to the basically British view that the submarine should be totally abolished. But there is no reason to think that France, Italy or Japan will ever give up this cheap and effective knife-in-the-belly. And the U. S. Navy would really like to keep it, as a coast-defense weapon. Abolition of the submarine will not be achieved at London and the chances of limitation look poor...
...Smithsonian's Matthew Williams Stirling flew to the island's mountain reaches. The little men overcame their suspicions of the big explorer. They offered him their bananas, sugar cane and taro, cultivated and prepared with the only three tools they knew of-an axe, a flat, curved knife, a chisel, all made of stone. They made him fire by rubbing sticks together. They showed him how they cremated their little dead. And they laughed as they entertained him. He offered them modern steel tools. They shyly asked for bright shells and beads. He learned a few of their...
...Government has in fact done nothing to meet Indian aspirations. There have been commissions of investigation, soothing statements by the Viceroy, and several bombings, but nothing definite. For example: Nobody was killed last week when "persons unknown" dynamited the empty dining car of the viceregal train. (In 1872 a knife was stuck into Lord Mayo, only Viceroy of India ever successfully assassinated. Moral: A bomb?even the one which successfully exploded in the very howdah of Viceroy Lord Hardinge of Penshurst in 1912?is a poor weapon...