Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio was Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther in 1931. She pleaded guilty in a second trial, got off with a life sentence. Second Ohio death sentence for a murderess was imposed last week on a plump and pretty 31-year-old Bavarian blonde named Mrs. Anna Marie Filser Hahn. Crime of which a Cincinnati jury of 11 women and one man found Mrs. Hahn guilty was poisoning a 78-year-old German-American named Jacob Wagner with arsenic and croton...
...victim of the electric chair was by no means Mrs. Hahn's only claim to distinction last week. By the time her trial ended, she had established herself to the jury's satisfaction as one of the most amazingly assiduous heroines in the history of U. S. crime...
...more people knew the value of this instrument, the money-starved music department would not at this moment be hesitating whether they should repair, or allow age to run its certain course. It is a crime that a rare instrument essential to the performance of old music should not be used for demonstration in the courses that need...
...Flapper's Half Acre," Honolulu's night-club and cabaret belt, was the scene of the most celebrated crime in Hawaiian history-rape of Mrs. Thalia Massie, wife of a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, followed by the death of a Hawaiian suspected of the crime and the conviction of Mrs. Massie's mother, husband and two men for manslaughter. Last week, Flapper's Half Acre made sordid news again. A telephone call for an ambulance brought police to the sumptuous beach house of thick-jowled young Prince David Kalakaua Kawananakoa...
...into the inkwell before applying it to the paper. . . . No one ever thinks of filling the pen but the inkwell is always filled. . . . In the Papal State the projection of films is prohibited. The Pope never sees even the most innocuous news reel. . . . Although there is no crime in Vatican City there is a jail. . . . No sentence has yet been passed on any penal case. . . . No better conditions exist for workers than those prevailing in the service of the Pope. . . . They have enough to spend on simple amusements. They are secure and happy in the highest sense of social reform...