Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winterset" Anderson protests the criminally negligent handling of the Sacce-Vanzetti trial. Mio Romangna, presumably the son of Vanzetti, attempts to discover the culprit in a murder for which his father was executed; on meeting the sentencing judge he completely besis him in what is almost a re-trial, but his discovery of the killer results in his own destruction. Often considered one of Anderson's finest works, "Winterset" was produced as a movie...
...mere smear-as if no one cared to know what had happened at Pearl Harbor. To people who read John O'Donnell's poison penmanship in the Roosevelt-hating New York Daily News and Washington Times-Herald, it was a war criminal trial, with Franklin Roosevelt, the culprit, tried and convicted daily. Sample O'Donnell: "One becomes appalled and frightened at the one-man, all-out ignorance and mental arrogance of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . The evidence builds up to the simple brutal fact that F.D.R., the Big Brain, through blind stupidity . . . was directly and personally...
...Break. Last week Bertram Campbell, now a $50-a-week bookkeeper, was suddenly and dramatically cleared; proved, at last, was the fact that he had not been the forger. The culprit was none other than Alexander D. L. Thiel, the horseplaying, narcotic-spurred wizard of forgery who in some 40 years had left a $500,000 trail of bogus checks over the U.S. (TIME, April...
...from bailing out the culprit pitchers, as Ottie hoped, the hitters have flopped too. Disaster is contagious. If Ott didn't know that 37-year-old Ernie Lombardi couldn't go on hitting home runs right & left, and that 38-year-old Phil Weintraub was a chronic slumper (and a strictly minor-league first baseman), he was whistling alone in the dark...
Dodds' unorthodox style had changed little since he ran his first (and involuntary) race. As a boy in Falls City, Neb., he threw a stone at Lloyd Hahn's passing automobile. When the then great runner stopped to give chase, he could not catch the chunky culprit. But Hahn recognized a future champion when he saw one, made young Dodds his prot...