Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashions, was becoming only to the stylish. Race prejudice still showed its ugly head. Senator Bilbo .was stopped at the door of Congress and went back to the South to die, but Willie Earle was lynched in Greenville, S.C., and 31 men who were tried for the crime were freed...
...Know." Tojo did not accept responsibility for a crime. He said: "Never at any time did I conceive that waging this war could or would be challenged by the victors as an international crime, or that regularly constituted officers, officials of the vanquished nation, would be charged individually as criminals...
...Crime and Punishment (adapted from Dostoevsky's novel by Rodney Ackland; produced by Robert Whitehead & Oliver Rea) is perhaps too great a novel to be tampered with. But by the same token it would seem able to withstand a lot of tampering. Dostoevsky's great study of crime and punishment is also a tense story of crime and detection. Before its arrogant Nietzschean murderer Raskolnikov (John Gielgud) is guided toward confession and atonement by a humble Christian prostitute (Dolly Haas), he is played with, cat-&-mouse, by the Moscow police...
...cross-section of Raskolnikov's swarming rooming house-is a fine device for squeezing in a lot of stray incident, but it virtually squeezes out Raskolnikov. Thick with debris that chokes the main story, full of garish gloom that feasts the eye but starves the emotions, Crime and Punishment winds up a bore...
...until he was 28 did Matsukichi again fall into crime. Then it seemed inevitable. "I was asleep in a field," he said, "and I awoke after dark. I noticed lights in the distance and they led me into a large house which I robbed...