Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Consul Chapman, succored by friends, expressed the opinion that the man who had fired upon him was "simply an anarchist"; and declared himself unable to imagine any motive for the crime. Observers remembered that the U. S. Consulate at Puerto Mexico, was established only last March...
...said: "The assassination of Kevin O'Higgins is murder and inexcusable from any standard. I am confident no Republican organization is responsible for it, or would give it countenance. It is the duty of every citizen to set his face sternly against anything of the kind. It is a crime that cuts to the root of all representative government, and no one who realizes what it means could do otherwise than condemn and deplore...
...forbidden for a man to be alone in a hotel room with a woman who is not his wife, sister or mother. A simple kiss in the park is a legal offense. Adultery is actually considered a crime. But that does not keep the Americans from yielding to nature's demands, with the result that there exists a general state of dissimulation and hypocrisy that is rotting the soul of America...
...superior U. S. eating-place. While on duty, he has occasion to save a youth (Robert D. Agnew) from a blond siren of the "swell-restaurant" set. The youth turns out to be the head waiter's son. Thus Destiny led the man without hope to happy fulfillment. Crime & Punishment.* Dostoievsky wrote a grand and gloomy novel about a Russian youth who seeks salvation in rationality and finds it in faith. In the course of his anguished gropings he commits a brutal murder, falls in love with a gentle girl. Phoenix Film Co. of Germany has telescoped the story...
...Last season, Crime & Punishment was given as a play entitled The Humble, in which Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis appeared...