Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piece The King and Mistress Shore. Jane Shore was the mistress of King Edward IV and after his death was, by order of King Richard III, frog-marched through the streets of London to be reviled by the populace and finally imprisoned for what was declared to be the crime of "committing adultery with His Late Majesty." The Lord Chamberlain, who acts as Britain's play censor, has no power to ban productions in such little theatres where entrance is supposed to be ''by subscription to members only...
...must heckle something, heckle the person who writes the Crime. He ain't what he used to be. L. Guy Huntley...
...income taxes, whose evasion sent Public Enemy Al Capone to jail for eleven years in 1931, plus accrued interest at 12%, the Federal Government put up for sale Capone's gaudy island estate off Miami Beach, Fla. In Moab, Utah, his old armored limousine, on tour as a crime exhibit, was junked after a wreck. To University of Chicago students Lawyer Clarence Darrow observed: ''I think Al Capone got a terribly wrong deal ... an outrageous deal...
DEATH IN THE DEEP SOUTHWard Green-Stackpole ($2). "Neither a crime novel nor a mystery novel," laid in an anonymous Southern city, in which an unassuming New York teacher in a business college is convicted on circumstantial evidence of murdering his beautiful 15- year-old student...
...impossible to calculate that moral mischief . . . . that mental lying has produced in society. When * man has so far corrupted. . . . the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime...