Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guizado's lawyers attempted to get his trial transferred to the Supreme Court, rather than the pro-Remón National Assembly, which has the constitutional authority to try accused Presidents. They argued that the alleged crime took place when Guizado was still Vice President; the Supreme Court, ruling that the accusation against Guizado was made while he was President, rejected jurisdiction. The Assembly named a five-man committee to gather evidence and prepare an arraignment. (Miró will be tried in the courts...
With the exception, then, of the few shots of local geography, 6 Bridges to Cross is twice removed from reality. Its story is based on a recent novel, The Anatomy of a Crime, which author Joseph F. Dinneen claims to be "a startling parallel" to the unsolved bank's robbery of five years ago. Despite its literary deficiencies, the book contains some interesting insights into the relationships between the F.B.I. and local authorities and between the police and their "stool pigeons"; in short, it is excellent material for a movie, or rather it was before being distorted in 6 Bridges...
There will be no CRIME Monday. There will be no CRIME Tuesday. We believe that there has been a CRIME this morning; if published, it was the last paper of the 1954-55 board...
...Wednesday, we believe that there will be a CRIME that day. In fact, it will be twelve pages if the word of the 1955-56 board is to be trusted. These undergraduates who do not return to Cambridge in time to get this issue will be fined $10. Those whose names begin with A through M should report to receive their CRIME's from 1 to 3 p.m. N through Z will squeeze through in the following hour, and from 4 to 5 p.m. anybody who is left will trickle into Memorial Hall and then trickle out bowed under...
...down the hall stops his constant wailing of the blues. There is also another condemned prisoner, and Eddie will take him along, because this guy knows where to find 200 Gs. Then, too, there are a steady-eyed priest, a good guard, a bad guard, and a good, dumb crime reporter. After the well-engineered escape, Eddie, the boys and his moll foolishly hole up on the top floor of a warehouse. At this point, the shooting becomes so excessive that the audience can hardly hear the dialogue. When the bullets finally burn Eddie to the floor, everybody feels that...