Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny Morey, a candidate, last night "fell" under a flurry of knife blows front a hidden assassin as he left the dining hall loudly singing his campaign song at 6:31 p.m. Two of his boydguards (see cut at left) quickly riddled the assassin with concealed arms...
Nothing but cash was taken, the victims reported yesterday, as the bandits ignored the watches and jewelry. Torrey said no one was hurt, although the bandits held a knife against him during their search...
Anybody in Exmore, Va. would have known that Melvin ("Bad Boy") Collins was a colored man who might try to blow your head off. He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes. He had cut his own brother with a knife. But Bad Boy had left Virginia last month. He had headed north, and in the Negro district of Chester, Pa., nobody knew his reputation...
...like it. In the old days they did well enough to don Prince Albert coats after work and ride home in hansom cabs. They still pay their workers well. Example: fillet men (who can reduce a fish to pure meat with three or four deft swipes of a knife) get up to $125 a week...
...dissolved by candor. There is enough in these pages to explain why Hopkins was feared and hated by men of all parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood quotes Hugh Johnson without disapproval : "He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous . . . He's just a highminded Holy Roller in a semi-religious frenzy...