Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the provision that "no one shall hereafter be convicted of a crime of murdering any Harvard graduate, Rhodes scholar, or student, except upon the testimony of the deceased in open court," the measure was entitled, "An act to restore peace, tranquility, and sanity to the United States," and was introduced "with the solemn declaration that it had nation-wide endorsement...
...reading up on what happened after World War I. Wrote he: "... I cheer up too when I reflect that it's all happened before . . . dear food, scarce food, few clothes, no beer, high taxes, too many forms to fill up, not enough homes to live in, Germany, a crime wave, rising cost of living, falling output of goods, riots in India and Egypt. Everyone said: 'The country's going to the dogs.' Why, this is almost where we came in. One begins to feel better already. Nothing so comforting as to know that other folks have...
...rare pleasure of seeing a restaurateur presented with a whopping bill. For dodging payment of $2,872,766 in income taxes, Henry Lustig, owner of Manhattan's high-priced restaurant chain, Longchamps Restaurants, Inc., was sentenced to four years in prison, fined $115,000. His partners-in-crime, Nephew E. Allen Lustig and Bookkeeper Joseph Sobel, were given three-and two-year terms, respectively. Hardly had Uncle Sam presented one bill to Henry Lustig than he reached in his pocket for another. Lustig and his corporations still owe the U.S. Treasury an additional $7,726,124 in taxes...
...Angel Street" is the tale of a Macchiavellian murderer who is cheated out of the fruits of his crime, the theft of valuable rubies, and waits fifteen years before returning to the scene, having acquired a moustache and a new, naive, wealthy British wife in the interim, to continue his search for the gems. Since the entire scheme, and a broad hint as to the outcome, are brought out in the first act, it takes worthy performances by the murderer and his unsuspecting wife, who is being methodically driven out of her mind by her spouse, to sustain the terror...
Last week the Moscow evening daily, Vechernaya Moskva, told fascinated Muscovites (who get little crime news) the story of Serafima. The paper did not say what happened after her arrest, but keen readers noted that the stories always mentioned her in the past tense...