Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neighboring house, found a fear-stricken woman and her 16-year-old son, shot both of them with his last bullets. Then he went back to his upstairs bedroom, leaving twelve dead, one dying and three wounded in a scant twelve minutes that had no counterpart in U.S. crime history...
Andrei Gromyko, the sharpest dresser of them all according to T & C, "commits the sartorial crime of tying his evening bow behind the points of his wing collar. He also affects the American habit of pressing a crease in his sleeve." Ex-Ambassador Maisky "makes the mistake of fastening his bottom waistcoat button" -a mistake, admits T & C, that might be accounted for by the class-conscious fact that "the leave-it-undone style was created by royalty...
...much "preoccupation with crime." Transradio won praise for its "excellent" Washington report, but was censured for "using long, involved sentences." One thing radio wants for its listeners, said the committee, is more "quirks, chuckles and brighteners." But, the investigators said sadly, when the news services did try for the light touch they often "belabored the kick line before it was reached" and "some [of their stories] have no point...
...Angeles, Crime Entrepreneur Mickey Cohen (TIME, Aug. 1) went a long way toward proving himself the first U.S. hoodlum with an uncontrollable gift of gab. Instead of preserving a sullen silence when it developed that the cops had been eavesdropping on him through microphones hidden in his house, Mickey submitted to interviews. To impress Newshen Florabel Muir he even let one of his retainers, a Johnny Stompanata, win a couple of hands of gin rummy. Astounded, Stompanata asked: "Why do you do that?" Said Mickey, airily: "Noblesse oblige!" Stompanata asked for a translation, but was cut off. "How," asked Mickey...
...Crime & Punishment. George Junior Republicans make their own laws in monthly meetings where citizens over 15 years of age (who pay a $1.50 annual poll tax) are allowed to vote. The kids also run their own police force and courts, impose and enforce sentences. Last week, only four were serving sentences for misdemeanors. Sample sentences: for boys, extra work with pay confiscated; for girls, more work and no makeup...