Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time it's strong John Wayne, who owns the gold mine, v. Randolph Scott, who doesn't but wants to, with slinky Marlene Dietrich in the background, always ready with a knife or a hard word. As Cherry Malotte, proprietor of Nome's Great Northern saloon, she is back in her Destry Rides Again role −a Bad Girl with a nugget heart...
...were all more than seventy years old." ^ Therese, the 250-lb. cook, "was a 'numero' in all senses of the word." ("A 'numero' . . . was one degree lower than a 'type,' but less severe than 'individu.' ") Armed with a butcher's knife and fortified with three liters of red wine (her daily quota: five liters), Therese was formida ble. She endeared herself to the local wags by surreptitiously serving the unpopular Navet "chat farci" -stuffed...
Skirting the center of the fire he brought five Chinese soldiers to a makeshift hospital. There, in a palm-treed courtyard on an open, unroofed stone porch, I saw a muscular white man, stripped to the waist, making swift jabs with a surgeon's knife in a struggling Chinese soldier's arm. Three Burmese 90-lb. nurses were holding down the soldier. Gas lamps strung on wires provided the only light. In the background the crackling of the fire could be heard...
Sabu, who returns to his native village and his true mother after his wolfish education is ended, learns how to run with the man pack in no time at all. Buldeo (Joseph Calleia), the hunter, sells him a "tooth" (a long-bladed knife), and he polishes off Shere Khan. But the hunter's lust for the treasure of a lost jungle city which Mowgli reveals to him sends the disgusted wolf-boy back to his animal friends-and leaves the door wide open for a sequel, if the box office warrants...
...shrieks. Every so often 'Geechee would stagger in to reassure her: "Kate an' Raymond's fightin', but don't you worry." "The bacon done burnt itself up, but don't you fret." "Kate is chasin' Raymond thu the grove with a butcher knife. But you jes' lay still and don't worry." So now 'Geechee comes to see Mrs. Rawlings once a year. She is always a little drunk. She says "they ain't nothin' nobody can do about...