Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...charges are an] insincere, unprincipled and dishonest campaign of deliberate slander ... by a little handful of ambitious men who seem quite willing to stab the State's greatest institution in the back if they think they might thereby advance their personal or political fortunes...
...runner on third, Martynik drove a hard grounder to Wood, who was unable to field the ball cleanly, and Goff scored, Martynik stretching his base hit for two bases. In the midst of this confusion Des Roches pulled the situation out of the fire by making a valiant stab at the hard grounder sent out by Potter, catching Martynik flat-footed as he tore into the base. Two flies and a strike out was Harvard's record in this inning...
Some mean person once called Michael Arlen's style not brilliant, but brilliantine. There is more justice in this stab when it is aimed at his earlier novels than at his latest, best book. Still brilliantined in spots, Men Dislike Women may surprise Arlenites by its compactness, comparative hardness, freedom from the brittle artificiality, the paste tears, the pasty sentiment that have made even Arlen enthusias's call Michael Arlen ephemeral...