Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the picture somewhat sketchily outlines early episodes in the career of the murderer, Clyde Griffiths. He is shown as a bellhop, a tramp, a dishwasher, then as a foreman in the collar factory of a rich uncle. He seduces a factory girl, Roberta Alden, and attempts to desert her when he is attracted by Sondra Finchley, richer and correspondingly more interesting. When Roberta Alden tells Clyde Griffiths that she is going to have a baby, he is provoked to kill her?by taking her on a picnic, tipping over their rowboat, swimming to shore while she drowns...
...Most famed puzzler of the 1930 Edison questionnaire: if you and an assorted party of seven were stranded in a desert with escape possible only for three, which three would you save? Last week came word of an actual party of seven, much like Mr. Edison's-including a 16-year-old mother and her baby-whose bus broke down crossing; the desert between Nogales and Mexicali, Mexico. After wandering five days, the mother, baby and two others died. The three survivors were discovered raving...
...savings on a holiday for himself and daughter (Lois Moran); a gang of international rogues; and another rogue (Edmund Lowe) who combines the faculties of Robin Hood, Don Quixote and deus ex machina. He forms a liking for the banker's wife, causes her husband to desert his mistress...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Michael Hamelburg, 46, father of five, radio dealer, enthusiastic reader of Robinson Crusoe, disappeared from his home. Last week detectives found him on a desert island near Long Beach feeding crumbs to two wild ducks. "All I want," said he, "is to be let alone and to have a rowboat...
...Chicago a fortune-teller told Mrs. Sarah Koestner, 26, that her 7-year-old son would lose his sight and that her husband would desert her. Leaving a note to the husband directing that the son's eyes be tested twice a year, Mrs. Sarah Koestner rented a ninth-story hotel room, jumped out the window...