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Word: crimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist League yesterday fired a mimeographed salvo at one of America's softest spots, our sentiments toward Finland. In justifying Russia's attack as a defense against British imperialism, the YCL failed to realize that it is the ruthlessness and inhumanity of the aggression that constitutes the Soviet's crime in the eyes of the world, and not necessarily her general policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEEING RED | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

...feel sure that there will be some interesting disclosures if and when the Government establishes that it considers pseudonyms a terrible crime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uproar at Yale as Browder Lectures | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

...hopeful young Lifer Whitsitt has been an exemplary prisoner. Three years ago his excellent behavior got him a break. He was allowed to sell a story he had written of life in prison. Then he began to talk prison officials into letting him ghostwrite crime articles for them. Last month he earned $145 that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Hollywood glorified the era with miles of film, broadcast the U. S. gangster to the world: Scarface, Manhattan Melodrama, On Wings of Song. Pulp magazines dedicated to crime inundated the newsstands. "Stick 'em up," little boys screamed at one another, "or I'll blow your guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hoodlum | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...CRYING SISTERS-Mabel Seeley-Crime Club ($2). As creepy as Author Seeley's The Listening House, this one plunges a blameless Minnesota librarian into murderous enigmas when she agrees to care for a widower's small son at a resort on Crying Sisters Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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