Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three hundred years ago in crowded London slums, hungry bellies ached, loaves of black bread were stolen. Next morning the gallows tree bore fresh fruit of petty thieves; punishment was quick, certain, cruel. Crime did not abate...
...Crime. The thug-belabored Manhattan, Playwrights Samuel Shipman and John Hymer brought comfort. Your real criminal, they divulged, never shoots in the head or abdomen for death, but merely in the arm or leg for legitimate profit. Eugene Fenmore (James Rennie), head of a high-principled gang plans his "jobs" in evening clothes, with the nicety of the inspired artist. While police are decoyed to the scene of a set-up brawl next door, his men rifle Goldberg's jewelry store in full sight of a pop-eyed audience. All would have been decent, had not Rocky Morse (Chester...
Mirrors and pictures, guiltless of the crime of area, are allowed full freedom of the walls. Such accoutrements, intelligent, it must be admitted, are more feminine than male. Broad-beamed gentlemen denizens remain skeptical of the idea...
Seventeen companions in crime read my copy, including the famous Dr. Cook of North Pole fame, the Yellow Kid, whose mysterious ways gained him millions, S. E. J. Cox of oil world fame and Big Tim Murphy liked to read...
...with children who could not help seeing newsstands. The Tombs Court issued a summons charging Publisher Macfadden and some underlings with violation of that clause of the penal code prohibiting literature "principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime...