Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since these were by way of being "routine assassinations," and since so many other U. S. citizens slain in Mexico are unavenged, it was especially notable that the police of Guadalajara, Jalisco, seized seven Indians last week and executed them as the slayers of Edgar Wilkins...
...police called attention to the fact that Mr. Wilkins had been killed by seven knife wounds, each of which has now been avenged by the execution of a Mexican Indian. Further, the police explained that when a gang of Indians sets out to commit murder each must strike a blow, by custom, that all may be equally guilty and none tempted to betray the others...
...super newsreels of prizefights, launchings, inaugurations, broadcast directly from the scene of the event with all their attendant noises. While not yet perfect, television had reached its highest stage of development in last week's demonstration. Engineer Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson of the U. S., with his seven beams of light, John L. Baird of England, with his super-sensitive photo-electric cell and infra-red rays, C. Francis Jenkins in Washington, Edouard Belin of France, these had hounded success for many years. But it remained for Dr. Herbert Ive's,* bearded, bespectacled chief of the Bell television...
Gertrude Ederle, channel swimmer: "Last week, after undressing in an ambulance, I swam to and fro in the Trinity River, seven miles from Dallas, Tex., peering and feeling unsuccessfully underwater for two corpses, the bodies of 18-year-old Dallas boys, Clifford Stockton and Lee Harris, whose boat had capsized. This information reached the public through the press agent of the vaudeville troupe with which I am barnstorming...
...slapjack, to slap the seven of clubs (or other non-jack...