Word: crippen
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...Sydney Telegraph rushed Australian Crown Prosecutor Charles Rooney 12,000 miles to London by air to cover the trial with a lawyer's eye. The London Daily Mail hired long-haired Author Peter Quennell, who was obligingly overwhelmed: "By comparison, Crippen was a sentimentalist and Landru† a boastful playboy." Even the dignified London Times gave the story three full columns...
Fame first came to Sir Bernard through the infamous Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen. In 1910, Dr. Crippen poisoned his wife, buried her in quicklime in the basement and ran off with his typist. Before Scotland Yard was sure that a murder had been committed, Spils and his microscope identified something found in the basement as a bit of human skin with an appendectomy scar. Ships at sea were alerted and Dr. Crippen, despite his disguise, was nabbed in the St. Lawrence before his ship landed...
...years passed, Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps bid fair to be the most fought-over composition of the 20th Century. One English critic described it as "a threat against the foundations of our tonal institutions," declared that it should have been dedicated to Dr. Crippen, a dentist celebrated for murdering his wife, cutting her body in pieces. But dapper, energetic Igor Stravinsky found himself the most influential composer of his generation. To younger composers the Sacre became music's Declaration of Independence. By 1920 nearly every musical youngling was throwing over his counterpoint for Stravinskian grunts & groans...
...Kaiser Franz Josef, Queen Victoria, Woodrow Wilson, Mark Twain, Henry Morton Stanley, President Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Rear-Admiral Peary, Ellen Terry, James Whitcomb Riley, Vice-President (to President McKinley) Garret A. Hobart. Hobbyist Vincent is now searching for a known recording of the voice of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, famed uxoricide...
...last summer the zealots worked. At any sign of progress, Dr. Connell, a strict but swearing Presbyterian who served with the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Forces at Vladivostok, would exult: "Gee Crippen, this thing's just coming along dandy." When he had injected 29 patients dying of cancer, had found that the 25 who survived had lost the haggardness typical of cancer victims, and felt positive that a man and a woman had completely recovered from cancer, Dr. Connell decided that he had better describe his work in the Canadian Medical Association Journal to nail his claim of priority...