Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Havana weltered in a heavy crime wave. So far this year there had been some 48 murders, practically all of them black-sedan-and-submachine-gun jobs in South Chicago style. Most seemed to be political, the vengeance of hot-headed young terrorists exploding against officials of the Batista regime now that the dictator was out, the war over and the country economically upset. When assassins shot an ex-police chief as he read the paper one evening on his front porch, they left behind the sign of the Union of Revolutionaries: "Justice comes late, but it comes...
...lost something, of course; but much of its humor still clicked and much of its melodrama still crackled. It caught the atmosphere of a press room in the days when all reporters were cynics and when Chicago's chief industry was crime. Its profanity had not dated, though it no longer seemed daring...
Home Sweet Homicide (20th Century-Fox), based on a Craig Rice whodunit, is the carefree story of a mystery novelist-widow (Lynn Bari) whose three crime-conscious children happily solve a neighborhood murder...
Craig Rice based her 1944 book on the unreticent personalities of her own three children. A strong flavor of reality is retained in the movie. Three knowing youngsters, raised on lurid crime novels, would doubtless jump at a chance to furnish the real police with clues, red herrings, anonymous letters, innocent suspects, alibis and the rest of fictional murder's razzle-dazzle...
Among professors of English, the University of California's George R. Stewart is a rare bird. He can battle with Beowulf in Old English, discuss the drift of allegory in The Faerie Queene, or lecture gravely on the crime of the dangling participle...