Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more hopeful, a new State's attorney was getting ready to enter office in Cook County, Judge John A. Swanson. Robert E. Crowe, the Republican incumbent beaten by Swanson in the primary last spring, is the political "pardner" of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Crowe tried to "knife" Judge Swanson in last month's election and "throw" the office to the Democratic candidate. Many another Republican lost out but Judge Swanson prevailed and last week was preparing to rake out Crowe's politico-criminal mess. Instruments ready at hand were some able assistants of Special Prosecutor...
...France there is only one current guillotine knife, although there are many scaffolds. Therefore M. de Paris has to travel, sometimes to Marseilles to decapitate a taker of virginities, sometimes to Rouen to speed a parting fratricide. He is a traveling salesman of Death. His salary until last week was a paltry...
...said: "Perhaps no nation stands so much in need of a recognition of this necessity for armed protection as does the United States, and perhaps no nation has, since the warnings of Washington, turned so resolutely away from its serious consideration Let us remember the counsel of the Yellow Knife Indian-'It will be time enough for the warrior to throw away his gun when the squaw casts away her papoose...
...Just as a surgeon does not commit himsa (killing), but practices the purest ahimsa (non-killing) when he wields his knife on his patient's body for the latter's benefit, similarly one may find it necessary ... to go a step further and sever life from the body in the interest of the sufferer...
...kill or not to kill-Menelaus was distracted. Out came his knife and Helen smiled as poets have had her smile, until, hypnotized, he dropped it. But smiling might not always save her and Aithra mixed a potion that would bring forgetfulness and safety. Menelaus drank and Helen became for him a phantom he could love, one who had never sinned against him and his countrymen. He was happy for a moment, would start at once for home but Helen had her qualms. She remembered. So did all Greeks and again she appealed to Aithra and again Aithra made magic...