Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In outline, the story concerns the contest between the student body of a small-town high school and a peculiarly childish gangster named Louis Garrett (Charles Bickford). When the gangster shoots a Hebrew tailor for refusing to pay for "protection," the schoolboys indignantly try to find evidence that will convict...
DEATH BEHIND THE DOOR - Victor MacClure-Houghton Mifflin ($2). Scotland Yard's ace detective, on a busman's holiday, scents murder in accidental death. A motive of art-appreciation is proven posthumously, in a solution by confession.
¶ For snatching August Luer, aged Alton, Ill. banker, St. Louis police and Federal agents tracked down and arrested one Percy Michael Fitzgerald, ex-convict and burglar, known as the "Dice Box Kid." His confession led to the arrest of three other men and two women. The police also found...
In Genoa for a visit, Monsignor William Eugene Cashin of Manhattan, one-time Chaplain of Sing Sing Prison, found himself "encumbered with a guide and interpreter. I may say that he wished himself on me. He spoke fair English, called me Father Cashin and generally acted as though he knew...
The story opens in Paris, October 6, 1908, early in the morning. Actress Germaine Baader is asleep in her bedroom. Schoolmaster Clanricard talks to his pupils about the threat of an European war. Apprentice Wazemmes grinds paint in a Montmartre workshop. Juliette Ezzelin leaves a book to be bound at...