Word: stilettos
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...these gentlemen and many another were stigmatized by the Fascist newspaper, Impero, last week: "Nothing is bad enough for them but the ignoble death of the stiletto. We hope that the blessed hands of a few holy mad men will exterminate these traitors with cold steel...
Argentine Love is another of those tense little international affairs with Ricardo Cortes in this corner representing the Argentine and James Rennie in that corner representing the U. S. The prize is Bebe Daniels. Stiletto fights, dark Spanish threats and flat silk hats are dealt out to the performers by Director Alan Dwan. Follow six rounds of pretty hot going. Kid Cortez is finally killed and Kid Rennie marches back to the U. S. with the prize under his arm. Witnesses call it a good fight...
...these truths were demonstrated afresh during the first week of the San Carlo season at the Jolson Theatre in Manhattan. Gallo provided the stuff that was expected of him, including Rigoletto, Tosca, La Traviata, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci. Consequently, there was a stiletto scene on the stage almost every night. But the performers' dagger-technique was sadly wanting in fire and dash. Manipulation of throat lozenges evidently was considered of superior importance to the handling of cold steel...
...Unassigned quotations are frequent. Meticulous accuracy of detail, one is tempted to suspect, occasionally is permitted to give way to the larger accuracy of the complete picture. His manner is rather journalistic than literary. His irony, running through the sketches in a constant undercurrent, is a little heavy. His stiletto lacks the keenness of Strachey's. But his subjects are well chosen and looked at with freshness and originality. The book as a whole gives a very complete and vivid picture of the opening of the Century...