Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington to tell a grand jury about his campaign contributions, thin, knife-faced Tycoon Lammot du Pont backed off when cameramen began an encircling movement. Explained Photophobe Du Pont: "One time I received a letter asking for the loan of $15,000 from a fellow who said he had seen my picture in the paper and knew I would give him the money because my face was 'so kind.' He sent the clipping. It was a picture of someone else...
Protesting against the discharge of one of their colleagues (after a knife fight few nights before), the track's 1,500 grooms had called a strike during the Seabiscuit unveiling, refused to lead the horses to the saddling paddock. Flabbergasted fans lined up at the betting windows and admission booths, got back their day's outlay, including parking and program fees...
...advertising executive in Greenwich, Conn., suburb of New York City. According to her testimony she found him in her bedroom one evening when she emerged from a shower bath wearing only a towel, was raped thrice in various parts of the house, bound, gagged, threatened with a knife, taken for two automobile rides, finally thrown into an icy reservoir near which she was found hysterical. The Negro's defense was that she had invited his advances. A jury of six men and six women (one a native of Virginia) after over twelve hours debate acquitted...
...music mostly by Irvin Graham, produced by Kurt Kasznar) is the hastily doctored version of a feeble revue that expired a fortnight ago after seven performances. The doctoring has helped but hasn't cured. Good bits: the veteran Willie Howard, whose Jewish accent cannot be cut with a knife, as a ballet dancer; hot little Diosa Costello shaking everything shakeable in a scorching conga...
They have rationalized the guillotine into a lethal contrivance at least no more shocking than the electric chair. They have rationalized the Jacobin Club into an organization of earnest, overzealous patriots who, when it came to offering a human neck to the knife, simply could...