Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleaver...
...Brooklyn last month John Seles, butcher, was held up and robbed of $40 in his small store. Last week, Taximan John Kirschner entered the store, stood behind Butcher Seles, cried, "Hands up! Get into the ice box!" Butcher Seles whirled, drove his cleaver through the base of Mr. Kirschner's skull, though neck muscles and three large veins. Hospitalized, close to death, Mr. Kirschner said, "I was only fooling." No whit penitent, Butcher Seles said, " A joke, eh? What a joke, I'd say! . . . Yes, his wife, she's a customer...
...pole-vault was won by W. H. Cleaver '29, with 11 feet 3 inches. L. O. Combs '26 and Bolding Burbank '28 each made vaults of 11 feet, placing second, while R. R. Imping '28 placed third by clearing 10 feet 9 inches. Both Burbank and Combs were at scratch, however, while Cleaver was aided by a 15 inch handicap...
...Brisbape's benevolent press agenting of the yellow peril, for weapon, the long, slim dagger of the Orient, for place of execution, a mysterious opium den, the tong-man most prosaically shoots his enemy in a hot laundry or at best chops off his head with a meat cleaver in a hall bedroom. Such lack of consideration for reporters, such neglect of the movie career lying open to the artistic murderer brings one to the conclusion that the author of "Fu Manchu", anxious for his monopoly of mystery, has bribed the vengeful Chinese to be deliberately dull. If this guess...
...Cleveland, Yee Chock was decapitated with an ordinary meat cleaver in his room in the Chinatown. Police and health officials promptly made a raid and seized about 500 Chinese. City Manager Hopkins ordered fire and health authorities to proceed with condemnation proceedings of homes and filthy firesides...