Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MURDER AT MANEUVERS - Royce Howes-Crime Club ($2). The shooting of a Russian general during war games; a simple, likable sleuth; suspects who include army officers and operators of a nearby speakeasy...
...South's shortcomings by itinerant northern journalists, Reporter Ashmore decided to spend his two-week vacation in "the deep North to see how they managed to cast the first stone."* New York City, the indignant reporter found, was the "sweatshop capital of America," its slums squalid and crime-breeding. New England's textile cities seemed to him "not far from being industrial ghost cities." In Philadelphia, he found more slums and "the universal fear" that industry would move away. In the shadow of Bethlehem's steel mills he saw "filth and depravity" and the same methods that...
...Devil's Island criminals by freeing 13 escaped convicts on the almost impossible-to-fulfill technicality that extradition papers with full descriptions had to originate from the men's place of conviction, that French officials wanting to extradite men had to present strict evidence of where the crime took place. Since then Trinidad has enjoyed a regular escape season in late spring, when winds and sea are favorable. After being provided with clothing and temporary shelter and food to last 21 days, the convicts are taken 12 miles out to sea, are sent on with a "Good luck...
...nature thiamin appears abundantly in egg yolks, lean pork, crude molasses, peas and peanuts. It is found most abundantly in the germs of ripe grain. Millers discard such "hearts of wheat" to make white flour, causing Dr. Williams to cry: "Man commits a crime against nature when he eats the starch from the seed and throws away the mechanism necessary for the metabolism of that starch...
...haired, brown-legged girl named Cora, the old lady's granddaughter, who poses for Mudgett and inspires him to the best work he has done. Before long, peace-loving Mudgett is involved in as many complications as a Prime Minister, with the old lady blackmailing him for no crime, the bank clerk dodging the police who are not after him. Above the level of comic-novel fooling are good descriptions of Mudgett at work-more concerned about light and color than about the girl he is painting, gradually awaking to the fact that his pictures are getting bolder, better...