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Word: criming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hush!" the Deans of the University stated, in an interview with a CRIME reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORTER QUIZZES BIGWIGS | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

Cambridge, March 15--A CRIME reuorter this evening interviewed several important personages to get their opinions on the Junior Dance rumor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORTER QUIZZES BIGWIGS | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

...this rôle Edward G. Robinson, one of the authors, gives a finely shaded performance. Mr. Robinson has for several years been playing snarling caitiffs in the wave of crime plays. His transformation into the well-meaning meddler of Kibitzer reveals him as the possessor of an unusually clear sense of comedy values. Alexis Polianov, Eugene Powers and Hobart Cavanaugh also are worthy of mention, and Producer-Director Patterson McNutt is to be credited with a steady-handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Trial. Last week the trial began. Rubberneckers swarmed into the Manhattan courtroom of the U. S. Supreme Court as though legal curtains were about to be raised on the scene of some glamorous crime. The jury, chosen for its ignorance of Leonardo, was composed of a clerk, two agents, two realtors, an accountant, a shirtmaker, an artist, a poster artist, an upholsterer, a vendor of ladies' wear and a man without occupation. Chief counsel for Mrs. Hahn was large, ironic S. Lawrence Miller. His opponent was excitable Lawyer George W. Whiteside. The room was littered with books on esthetics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen on da Vinci | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Many crimes are punished by long imprisonment; if a man while committing such a crime finds that he can escape detection by killing, there is no fear of punishment to restrain him from doing so, if murder is also punished by imprisonment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS SOLE CHECK FOR MURDERS | 2/13/1929 | See Source »

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