Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DEATH STOPS THE FROLIC-George Bellairs-Macmillan ($2). As exuberant Alderman Harbuttle led a gay crocodile of English "follow-my-leader" through the aisles of a dusky church, he was suddenly and expertly sliced with an ordinary bread knife. Subsequent events and beautiful sleuthing put the story at the top of any list...
...then powdered over, big, bold, red dened mouth." She wore a transparent dress around the house, knew all the scandal there was to know. She had known Lily's mother in jail. (More or less by chance, Lily's mother - good, but hot-tempered - had thrown a knife at a man, severed his jugular vein, been sentenced to 20 years in prison.) Oleander ordered Lily around, kept house for her, encouraged her love affairs, helped her marry, scandalized the neighbors, dwarfed her surroundings with her tawdry queenliness -in brief, a "burning pillar of a woman." Grant Sweetland...
...sight with a squealing shriek that sent some groundlings dashing for shelter, sure that a heavy bomb was screaming down near by. As it whisked overhead the sound changed to something like "a giant whistling teakettle on the boil." It disappeared over the far horizon before you could say "knife." After a while, neighborhood people got used to it, even gave it a nickname: "The Squirt...
...lady was his wife. "Behold the rascal," they cried, "who allows himself to have a wife entirely to himself in San Francisco!", Then one put his hand on his revolver and said: "We want to see her!" One Irishman shot Giovanni through the shoulder while the other drove a knife into his thigh. Giovanni blew out one man's brains. The other...
...added that the bonanza put Thompson "neck & neck with Young & Rubicam for the No. 1 spot." Tide seemed overkind to Y. & R.: J.W.T. itself admits to $17,000,000 of new business during the past two years. Said Y. & R., in its best let's-not-knife-the-competition-in-public manner: "No comment." And the peripatetic Ford account, for which J.W.T. hastily divested itself of its small slice of Chrysler business, moved over for a very significant reason: J.W.T.'s worldwide agency setup...