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Word: knifings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guard Troy Wade dozed in the shade of a tree, his shotgun beside him. Near by, Convict Frank Conley waited, watched, his hand on a knife hidden in his clothes. Far down at the end of the line he saw two convict guards saunter up to the driver of the prison water wagon-an Indian, in for rape-and train their guns on him. At the opposite end of the line two convict guards armed with shotguns quietly moved up on the regular prison guards. It was just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: 36 Men in Flight | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...touring children had departed from their hotel, the tour director mailed back a package. Contents: eleven spoons, five salad forks, one silver tray, two napkins, 17 washcloths, 22 bath towels, 58 small ash trays, three large ash trays, two water glasses, nine hotel signs, 24 shoe bags, one table knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 9, 1940 | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Hatchet Man No. 3 was New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, who made suggestively scalp-knife noises by explaining that the Republican National Committee could not afford to answer Secretary Ickes on the radio because it was "refusing to chisel funds from New Deal business victims with a campaign handbook racket. . . ." Getting worked up to his war dance, Senator Bridges ululated: "Who is this Ickes who talks so big-at a safe distance-about Hitler? In his own right Ickes is a Hitler in short pants. . . . A professional rabble rouser. . . . A political hatchet man. . . . Like Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Razors in the Air | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...through Trotsky's skull, but the blow was not hard enough. Trotsky did not slump, did not even realize that he had been hit on the head. He thought he had been shot. He leaped from his chair, grappled with his assailant, bit his hand. Even with a knife and a pistol and a mattock, young Jackson did not know how to cope with the old man. Trotsky screamed, staggered into the dining room. Faithful Natalie Sedova met Jackson at the door, threw herself on him. Then came Bodyguards Jake Cooper and Joseph Hansen. Cooper clubbed Jackson, knocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Death of a Revolutionary | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...country folk, and a great many juke-box operators, were more interested in the latest offerings of Messrs. Satherly and Kapp. Decca, which identifies such discs simply as "hillbilly" and "race" (Negro), had such items as Right Now and Essie Mae Blues by The Honey Dripper (Roosevelt Sykes); Pocket Knife Blues and Machine Gun Blues by Peetie Wheatstraw, "The Devil's Son-in-Law"; Cuckoo Cuckoo Chicken Rhythm and Birthday Party by Doctor Sausage and His Five Pork Chops. Okeh, which more elaborately describes this division as "Novelty Dance, Country Dance, Folk Songs and Race" offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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