Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third one ran away. Thank heavens for that! . . . By that time my old pistol, which wasn't very good as you know, was so hot that it broke to pieces. ... It is now, as you know, that your brother's life is depending on his knife...
...birthday last week, 25,000 parties were held throughout the U. S. Their collective gift: an estimated $1,500,000 for the Roosevelt fund to aid victims of infantile paralysis. Biggest & brightest of all was the party at Washington's Hotel Mayflower, where beaming Eleanor Roosevelt plunged a knife into a big, red, white & blue cake. But just before Mrs. Roosevelt cut into the cake, the President cut into the Wagner health bill...
...Mauser revolver, caliber 9. If you are unable to get this size, and if you can find a Nagan revolver or a big Colt pistol, send this with at least 100 cartridges. ... It is now, as you know, that your brother's life is depending on his knife...
...Henry Latham Doherty, off to a business career at twelve as an office boy for the Columbus (Ohio) Gas Co., the world of the eighties was an oyster and he held the shucking knife. By the turn of the century he was a crack western public utility man, and by the time he moved into Manhattan at 35 to set up Henry L. Doherty & Co. (utilities investments) he was a millionaire and had feathered his chin with a goatish beard to impress Wall Streeters. The beard failed to work, and Mr. Doherty had to borrow money in Europe until Wall...