Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great crime of the physician is hurry. This results in a temptation to interfere constantly with the natural processes. The physicians need nothing from science that they do not now possess. What is needed is more care in the treatment of mothers and greater patience such as the midwife uses...
...terror in its purest form. Because a member of the Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died to express the Government's determination that Nicolaev's act should not be the model for others...
Latest dispatches from Moscow reported that rifle fodder was being rounded up in Soviet districts along the Polish frontier, remote from either Moscow or Leningrad, the scene of the crime. Twelve were arrested in White Russia, 37 in the Ukraine far to the south. As an afterthought the Government, having let in the clutch of its machine of systematic Terror, described the nondescript persons shot last week as "Terrorists...
...Copland wrote smart, satiric music but attention was more on the stage, set as a grim grey courtroom. A cabaret dancer (Ruth Page), a jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted as different witnesses saw it. Revolver shots ring out from the orchestra. The jury believes any story. The pompous judge makes no decision, pounds his hammer for the next case on the docket...
...hours the Catholic-run hotel succeeded in hushing news of this crime. When the police finally let it out, reporters hotfooted to the chancery of St. Mary's Cathedral at Trenton, N. J., the diocese to which Father Leonard had been attached. A bombardment of press questions followed. The chancery, rigorously schooled in the use of language, was soon ready with its vindication: ''Father Leonard had an attack of influenza in the epidemic of 1918 and 1919. . . . He was mentally sluggish...