Word: dagger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France and Italy. There was nothing criminal about the original members who were exiled Neapolitan Liberals, forced, like true charcoal burners, to hide in the forests. Soon they took to murdering their political opponents, and later their members were neither Neapolitan nor Liberal. Their mark was a bloody dagger, left beside each of their victims. If Albert Prince was killed by such as these they were still at large last week, despite a reward of 140,000 francs for their capture...
...best portraits in the show were of Mrs. Peggy Bacon Brook. Very much an artist in her own right, dynamic, sharp-nosed Peggy Bacon is a famed U. S. caricaturist with a sly habit of ridiculing herself more savagely than any of her sitters. Her verse has a dagger-like point that wounds and wins. Always the gentleman, Husband Brook endows his wife's portraits with polite dignity and even a certain beauty...
...Hell drawings of note: "The Idiot Giant War," an obscene, pinheaded, hog-faced beast with ostrich feathers in his rump, gulping fistfuls of men from a great bowl ; "Trying to End it All," a pale and flabby Hellion, who has just slashed ineffectively at his nude paunch with a dagger...
...Imperial Child-in what to Japanese courtiers standing motionless in full regalia with faces reverently blank seemed a divine unison. In an adjoining room of the Pavilion stoically waited His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito with the traditional weapons. Always before he had had to give the newborn a dagger, the birthright of every Japanese girl to protect her purity. Four daggers had he thus given to four daughters. This time would His Majesty at last be able to give a sword? At exactly 6:39 a. m. came the first mewing cry. Tokyo trembled as the Imperial siren shrieked...
Courteously the secretary listened. Student Miyata read his protest loud and clear, then whipped out his dagger and slit a wound 15 inches long across his own midriff before Admiral Takarabe's secretary could interfere...