Word: mayhem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., one Frank Fusaris, grocer, saw one Angelo Cavallaro, barber, fingering his nose. Infuriated, the grocer leaped at the barber, chewed off the offensive nose, spat out the blood. Last week the courts fined him $5,000 mayhem damages, in favor of Barber Cavallaro...
...hear the factulty talk, one would think that mayhem or worse had been committed. Yet one cannot help thinking that if the faculty were to devise fairer methods of testing knowledge, there would be more student honor New York World...
...when some?* like your Mrs. Helen Hoffman (TIME, April 12, LETTERS) accuses us married workers of lack of respectability, I'd like to commit mayhem on her. Poor, coddled hausfrau! Perhaps a man stupid enough to marry such a nixnox has been superseded over his rut by an alert married woman worker. Yet his "missus" need not squall...
VARIETY?R chard Connell?Mint on, Balch ($2.00). In the columns of every U. S. newspaper, occupying the odd inch at the root of a divorce, or a box, maybe, between finance and mayhem, are items about nameless people who have become news because some extravagance in the comedy of their lives has made them pathetic or some vagary in their afflictions has made them funny. Richard Connell, with one snip of the shears, two strokes of the fountain pen, can transform such items into tales that delight the readers of The Saturday Evening Post, and may afterwards be collected...