Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadians didn't like it. In Ottawa, a woman paraded on Sparks Street with a sign reading: BREADKNIVES STAB HOUSEWIVES. In Toronto other housewives wired Prime Minister King that decontrol of flour was "an unforgivable crime against the people." An Ottawa councilman cried: "We are losing the peace. ... It is such things as this that give rise to Communism." Labor organizations warned that higher prices would inevitably mean higher wages. Sean Edwin, a Montreal Gazette columnist, cracked: "If the ... trend continues, dollars to doughnuts will be even money...
...sundown, Davy Jones boarded the ship through a hawse pipe. Grinning, Harry Truman found himself indicted as "a vile landlubber and a pollywog . . . .in that, knowing full well that there are no party politics in this absolute monarchy, you are guilty of practicing the same, this crime being further aggravated by your being a Democrat...
...doctor's record will do him no good either. Dr. Brandenburg was first accused of performing abortions in 1942 (no conviction). His most publicized scrape was over an alleged surgical altering of a criminal's fingerprints (his three-year sentence for "concealing knowledge of a crime" was set aside on the ground that he had concealed no offense defined by federal statute...
...darker, narrower field, among the criminals and policemen of a great city, lacks the older picture's richness of theme and its warmth, variety and brilliance. But in its own way it, too, is a clean knockout. It is also something new and welcome in U.S. crime movies. None of its criminals is glamorous, nor does anyone piously point out that crime does not pay. Nobody has to. The whole picture amply demonstrates the fact...
This is a collection of engaging and often touching chronicles of crime in an age (1660-1800) when a petty theft could send an Englishman to the gallows. Editor de la Torre's scholarship is graced with gusto that sometimes falls into archness, but her selections are almost all first-rate. Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift are among the old pamphleteers and balladeers represented; later hands include George Borrow and the Edinburgh lawyer, William Roughead, whom many connoisseurs consider the dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables...