Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what scandalized Frenchmen remember best is Maurras' campaign in 1936 against Premier Leon Blum, whom he addresses by the horrible French epithets of "the dog-camel" and-worse- "the female camel." This was called the "kitchen knife campaign" because Maurras incited his readers, if they had no other weapons, to go after Leon Blum and 140 left Deputies with kitchen knives. When, acting on his advice. Royalists seriously wounded Blum and his wife, Maurras was sentenced to a year in prison. Republican officials permitted him, however, to outfit his cell as a library, and Maurras continued to turn...
Like a steel-blue knife blade pressed flat into the heathery Scottish highlands lies 22½-mile Loch Ness. Natives of the district have for centuries been seeing kelpies, bogies, wills-o'-the-wisp. Relatively young, relatively real to the outside world is "Nessie," the lake's mysterious monster, "seen" every season since...
Sharpest hint that Caldwell has no intention of mellowing into a sharecropper humorist is A Knife to Cut the Corn Bread With...
...morning of Oct. 15, 1899 (goes her story), that drunken, 18-year-old Allen Britt (or Albert), a sturdy downriver buck, strode into Housemaid Frankie's St. Louis bedroom with another woman. When Frankie ordered him to leave, he drew a knife. As Frankie edged toward her pistol she warned him: "You're trying to get me hurt, and I don't want me to hurt you. The best place for you to go is your mother." When Britt failed to take the hint, she shot him. Groaning on the floor, he gasped: "Oh, you have...
...Gibsons: rat-tat-tat knife-throwing around the contours of a girl posed on a revolving wheel...