Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Throughout the Provinces tease acts drew big crowds. Theatre marquees were bright with electric signs such as "STRIP PLEASE," "STRIP AHOY," "STRIP STRIP HOORAY." One of the most popular acts featured a knife-thrower who stood his fully dressed partner up against a panel and then threw knives and toma hawks which literally peeled her clothes...
Things went so well in 1938 that the Boss ordered Newshawk Godwin re-elected in 1939. But recently, in keeping with the times, "Pumpkinhead" has been mumbling about a third term. Last week, vacationing in Coral Gables, Boss Young suddenly decided against it, telephoned his hatchetman, knife-witted George Durno of International News Service...
...papers. Next day, his agitation so alarmed his wife that she sent for State Police Chief Walter Williams. Chief Williams found Mr. Smith pacing his living room, muttering nervously that someone was trying to get him. Abruptly he excused himself and went into the kitchen, yanked a long-bladed knife from a drawer and stabbed himself over the heart and in the neck. Williams rushed him to a doctor. The wounds were not serious. After they had been dressed and Mr. Smith had been bandaged up, Williams took him to St. John's Hospital...
...chewing Senator Donahey took on only one Senate chore. After a squad of Senators had turned down the chairmanship of the TVA investigation, he took it, kept order with a Boy Scout knife which he used alternately as a toothpick, nail-clipper, and gavel...
...Elmer Rice's Manhattan idyl, Two on an Island. But where Rice, turned slickster, wears false face and speaks in falsetto, Odets still talks like Odets, can still be ardent, can still make a line ring out like a pistol shot, or a phrase cut like a knife to the bone. There are genuinely vivid and pulsing scenes in Night Music; and at least the hero (admirably played by Elia Kazan) is thoroughly alive...