Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...butcher who handled a bull-fiddle as familiarly as if it were one of the big carcasses hanging in his refrigerator, a Sears, Roebuck accountant who plays the viola, a postman who is also a flutist, and 100 other double-lived Chicago businessmen hurried from their workaday jobs early one night last week, dressed themselves in freshly-pressed business suits and set out for Orchestra Hall to demonstrate how well a band of earnest, carefully-rehearsed amateurs could play...
...Loudoun County, Va. awoke to find murder in their midst. Sometime during the night Agnes Boeing Ilsley, widow of a well- to-do Wisconsin banker, had been brutally done to death in bed at her house in Middleburg. Also killed was her elderly white maid Mina Buckner. A butcher with a meat cleaver could not have done a gorier job. Nothing was stolen...
...string along with the corrupt kosher poultry "trust"' (two who did not were shot down last year in Brooklyn and Queens), the broiler may have poison or kerosene sprinkled over him by a band of "the Boys," ex-convicts and plug-uglies who police the trust. Even the butcher on the quiet street who finally sells the broiler, should he escape all his other criminal hazards, probably has his district and his customers and his wholesaler assigned him by poultry racketeers. In The Bronx, one night early last month, police caught seven hoodlums vigorously banging sawed-off billiard cues...
Many a bimah (pulpit) of New York synagogs vibrated with Rabbinical wrath last Friday evening. The Kashruth Association, guild of ritual food inspectors, met during the week in anger. Some 6,500 kosher butcher shops feared for their supplies. Half as many kosher delicatessen stores were worried about their spicy provender; householders in The Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn chirped excitedly. All because of horrid disclosures of racketeering in the city's kosher food markets (see p. 15). The Kashruth Association called conditions in the kosher chicken markets "a blot upon the good name of the Jew." The Kashruth...
Brilliant, morbid and exciting, M is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929 (the perpetrator of which, Butcher Kuerten, was executed). It was written, like most of Director Lang's productions, by his wife. Thea von Harbou. It is all in German, with fairly adequate English subtitles superimposed. Peter Lorre distinguishes himself in a magnificent cast by his haunting performance as the murderer. Good shot: the pudgy young man after seeing himself described as a maniac, peering into a mirror and stretching his mouth to see if he looks crazy...