Word: stabbings
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...stage. As if to atone for lack of convincing atmosphere, those responsible for Girls in Uniform have made the entente between Manuela and the teacher unwholesomely explicit-a doubtful benefit. And to cap that, Manuela of the play actually manages to destroy herself instead of making an abortive stab at it. Point of the cinema was that the frustrated little girl did not escape from the school, an institution not intended to be merely the scene of juvenile tantrums but something far more organic, the inflexibility of life itself...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, thought beer legislation would be "a stab in the back for every other legitimate industry." Asked how he, if a Congressman, would balance his conscience against his constituents, he replied: "I'm not a balanced or reasoning man. I'm a fanatic. My conscience would never permit me to vote contrary to my convictions...
...September Pavel and little Fedor went into the woods. A group of villagers, boys and men with long knives hanging from their belts, found them there. While the terrified children clung to each other, somebody made the first stab. The savage villagers cut their bodies to pieces, buried them under the pines...
...Manhattan William Bound, seaman, said "No" to a beggar. Police later found Seaman Bound lying on the sidewalk with stab wounds in chest, arm and shoulder...
Latins, not Teutons, are supposed to stab each other but there was knife work aplenty in German streets last week. Stabbed, a Hamburg policeman died after two nights of agony. Stabbed in the heart at Essen, a young Fascist died on the spot Meanwhile in Cologne police beat off Fascists who bludgeoned them with iron rods. A Communist was shot dead at Strassfurt, a Fascist at Dortmund, another Communist at Duisburg. Street clashes grew so hot at Kiel that German sailors kept prudently in barracks, cancelled their announced "Parade in Celebration of the 13th Anniversary of the Scuttling...