Word: stilettos
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...Chicago, a boy on a bicycle zigzagged casually along a busy street, preventing honking automobiles from passing him. "Listen, you," cried Peter Valenchian from one of the cars. "Do you wanta get killed?" Straightway the boy dismounted, strode up to Valenchian's car, plunged a stiletto into Valenchian's heart, pedaled away...
First presented at a benefit for the New Theatre League in Manhattan, Waiting for Lefty got to Broadway by way of the Group Theatre (TIME, April 8). With lines as pointed as a stiletto, with a unique technical trick which used the theatre audience as spectators at a taxi union's mass meeting, Waiting for Lefty turned out to be a crashing success in tolerant Manhattan.* Thereupon, one by one, 32 League groups produced the show in the country at large and the trouble began. Plays of the calibre of Mr. Morgan's Nightmare had evidently been beneath...
...joined the bearded Garibaldi's redshirts and took part in their march on Rome. Back in liberated Venice stocky young Morosini was lounging along the narrow calle one day when he saw a gang of roughs attacking a young tourist and his tutor. Giovanni Morosini snapped open the stiletto he always carried and dashed to the rescue. The young tourist was the son of Jay Gould. Tycoon Gould, then secretary of the Erie Railroad, promised young Morosini a job should he ever...
...sailing ship. Jay Gould kept the bargain, gave him a job on the Erie at .$30 a month, from which he rapidly skyrocketed to be general auditor of the road. Hulking young Morosini with his flamboyant manner, his bullet head, his colossal mustaches (alia Vittorio Emmamiele} and his stiletto was the kind of man Gould, the unscrupulous railway pirate, could understand. Before long he was Gould's "secretary" (armed bodyguard), finally a full fledged Gould partner-and then how the money rolled in! He married, built a great rambling mid-Victorian palazzo at Riverdale-on-Hudson known...
...interpreting Il Duce's silence as a command, put 14 stiletto strokes into the assailant, one Anteo Zamboni, and pummeled his remains into a pulp...