Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIME...
Claude Rains, whose hypnotist's face has worked, visibly and invisibly, in The Invisible Man, Crime Without Passion, The Man Who Reclaimed His Head, plays the part of a hack vaudeville mind-reader. When his faked act misses fire one night, he suddenly discovers that he has a real and appalling ability to see into the future. He correctly foretells one disaster and his fortune seems made. Except for one profitable Derby winner, further prophecies are all of death. His wife (Fay Wray) begins to think he is going mad and the public begins to think...
...Crime & Punishment...
...Rattenbury explicitly confessed herself his mistress. This state of affairs so disturbed Mr. Justice Humphreys that it took him 3½ hours to charge the jury in Old Bailey. He told them with evident regret that pity for the drugged and passion-crazed chauffeur could not extenuate the crime of murder, nor could repugnance for "Rats'" wife count properly against her at this trial...
...Beware," cried His Lordship, "that you do not convict her of this crime [murder] because she is an adulteress-an adulteress of, you may think, the most unpleasant type...