Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read with much interest your story on Henry Ford. Regret to find it shot through with the poison of factionalism. Are you making a bid for more readers among labor? Naturally, that will increase your profits. Let's be sincere. Cut out your attitude of cynicism and knife throwing...
Then Leader Pechanatz gravely handed Mrs. Mitchell a phial of poison, showed her how to sew it in the collar of her tunic so that she could suck it out, even though her hands were manacled. He told her to practice killing with a knife, by plunging and twisting it in a sack of flour. These amenities attended to, Leader Pechanatz gave Mrs. Mitchell a job as dispatch rider on his general staff. From a list of names before him, he crossed hers off. Said he: "We just cross the name off, my girl, because we consider you dead when...
Topper's nextdoor neighbors are a houseful of leering, peering evildoers and a pair of curvaceous blondes. One blonde (Carole Landis) has returned from China to inherit the place. The other (Joan Blondell) strings along as friend and funster, gets a knife in her back before the night is out. Follows the usual Thorne Smith transmogrification in which Joan turns ghost, floats over to Topper's house, lures him, his wife (Billie Burke), her maid (Patsy Kelly) and his colored chauffeur (Eddie Anderson) back to the scene of the crime for a dose of spooks. Before Topper points...
...soon made thousands of dollars a week from the blue-black silver ore, gorged themselves on oysters, caviar, champagne. The streets thundered all night with brawling, boozing, wenching. Sam Brown, one of the first "bad men" of the old West, literally carved a man to pieces with his bowie knife, went to sleep on a table while his awed companions collected and removed the fragments. In the opera house, fights between bulldogs and wildcats alternated with Eastern stage celebrities, including famed, dark-haired Adah Isaacs Menken, strapped half-clad to the back of a horse...
...want to get out of a bus the conductress cries stoppu to the driver. As you step into the street she shouts after you orai, which stands for "all right" but is actually a form of farewell. In Tokyo the taxis are takuski and the chauffeurs are doraibu. A knife is knaifu, butter is bata, scrambled eggs are sakurambu eggu, beefsteak is beefu teki, chocolate is chokoretto, a mutton chop is maton choppu, soup is soppu, a salad is sarado, celery is serari, a tumbler is koppu (cup). To the moga (modern girl) it is all a pain...