Word: dahlias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with all the good you wrote about us. I deny all the bad. Furthermore there is no proof that the Black Dahlia's murderer was a citizen of Los Angeles. He might have been from Florida...
Rich, booming, and afloat with dull-eyed suckers, it is an irresistible target for shady operators, con men, burglars, jewel thieves and tired Eastern torpedoes-all of whom slip into sport coats and slacks on arrival. Murders are often bizarre. Elizabeth Short, nicknamed the "Black Dahlia," became the most highly publicized corpse in the country after a citizen left her slashed body on a vacant lot. A Mrs. Mary James was dispatched with more finesse-her husband thrust her foot into a box containing a rattlesnake, gave her a drink of whisky and then drowned her in the bathtub...
...they are worth-and more. He dresses up his crime stories with phony montages, demands a new angle for the lead story in each of his seven editions. He has a talent for tagging big crimes with a headline catchphrase; two of his trademarks- on the "Black Dahlia" murder and the "White Flame" murder-were promptly picked up by other papers. But "if you give the readers something sensational on one side of the page," Campbell says, "you ought to give them something solid on the other." His solid matter includes such stories as Arizona's side...
Other headlines caused only a stir. California had its eighth sex murder since the unsolved Black Dahlia killing. Manhattan's East Side had three Prohibition-style street-shootings in two days, and one victim spoke in a manner worthy of radio's "Gangbusters" before cashing in his chips. When the hated cops asked him his name, he said: "Joe Bananas, the second." When they asked who had done the foul deed, he responded: "Me mother...
...movie has a certain well-mannered style and spirit which Hollywood seldom gives to a medium-budget mystery. (It might also be noted that Britain would have difficulty turning out a Dark Corner or even a Blue Dahlia, which had a certain rude style and spirit of their own.) Best thing in the picture is Scotland Yard (amusingly played by long-jawed, quinine-flavored Alastair Sim), who is almost as bungling as he is smug, and never loses his complacency, even over his worst mistakes...