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Word: crimes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hubbub in Italy was tremendous. If Mussolini's complicity in the murder had been proved, he would have been driven from the Government. Nobody did prove it. Cried Mussolini: "Only an enemy who for long nights had thought of something diabolical against me could have committed this crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Man Who Knew Too Much | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...women: . . . If I address you today* I am doing so for two reasons: first, so that you shall hear my voice and know that I personally am -It was 12:59 a.m., Berlin Time. unhurt and well and, second, so that you shall hear the details of a crime that has no equal in German history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crack of Doom | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...insurance-claims investigator, Robinson plays his usual stock role and steals several scenes from MacMurray. Walter Noff (MacMurray) isn't as smart as his chief, however, and Robinson scraps his perfect crime to save the insurance company $100,000. But there isn't a trite "crime doesn't pay" line anywhere...

Author: By J. L. T., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 7/14/1944 | See Source »

...just as unconventional. Naturals for their parts are Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman capable of murder; Barbara Stanwyck as the unprintable blonde (for the occasion) who exploits his capabilities; Edward G. Robinson as the insurance-claims sleuth who sniffs out the flaws in their all-but-perfect crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 10, 1944 | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...husband's insurance money. In a trice infatuated Salesman MacMurray lends a hand. He tricks her husband into signing up for an accident policy which guarantees his widow double indemnity. Together they murder him and make the murder look like a fall from a moving train. After the crime comes retribution in the form of Edward G. Robinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 10, 1944 | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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