Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small, thin" description fits that of a man who accosted a Linnaean Street lady resident with a knife earlier this week and of a man who was caught in a dormitory at Sargent College last year. In both cases, when the police arrived, they were unable to arrest the accused man "because of lack of proof...
...steeped in the smoky atmosphere of the dives of the Barrio de San Miguel-Mexico's Montmartre. The secrets the girls told him in idle hours he phrased in songs. One night, as he broke off playing his new song Rosa, a buxom beauty named Yoland pulled a knife from her garter, slashed his face from mouth to ear, then knelt at his feet shrieking for forgiveness. Soon after, Lara wrote Woman ("You have in your look the passion that fascinates"), a smash hit that lifted him from the brothels to the best bistros of Mexico and South America...
...Paring Knife...
Sidewalk Cafe was painted in 1888 at Aries, in the south of France, before Van Gogh had succumbed to the mental horrors which caused him to threaten his friend, Painter Paul Gauguin, with a knife (later that evening Van Gogh cut off his own ear to give to a prostitute). Still untouched by disease, the painting presents a cozy, lovely corner of a friendly night, not the troubled night of his later work; it is proof of Van Gogh's contention that "the night is more alive and more richly colored than...
...Stir up the fire, Lucio . . . You have the whip and the little knife? Good . . . I don't believe he's Jack-fool enough to resist." But Richard Morandi, a bastard descendant of Stuart kings, is not one to let himself be castrated in front of his sweetheart without fighting back. Since it is Venice and the 18th century, Richard has a knife of his own up his sleeve, and he knows how to use it. Many a lesser novelist would be out of climaxes after Richard dispatches his enemy, but Novelist Samuel Shellabarger has lots more...