Word: ely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eli screamed right out in the courtroom: "You'll never sleep again, Murray!" He tried to comfort Madeline. She broke down and wept and ran her fingers through her Hedy Lamarr hairdo. She sobbed, beat her fists on the table, and sobbed again. He wrote notes to her about how he loved her and how she was the loveliest and most beautiful woman in the world...
...Worry. Eli was worried about her acting like a lady. When she talked she generally remembered to talk in the way that is considered very ladylike by one & all on Broadway. Once she screeched, in answer to a question from the prosecuting attorney: "I never file my nails in the presence of others. You're just trying to ruin my character." After all, the pair of them were fighting for their lives-even if their lives hadn't been so much...
...Eli sometimes showed off, sometimes said such things as: "I am addicted to verbiage." But at one point he was almost noble. He tried to make a sacrifice by confessing the killing, thus clearing Madeline and even Cullen. He would have died, he said, if Madeline had known about it. He had done it-he and dirty Murray...
...jury was out five and a half hours. They decided to take the State's story, that Madeline had invited her friend Mrs. Susie Reich over to her hotel so that Eli and Cullen could pounce on her and rob her. When they filed in again, they found all three guilty of first-degree murder, with a recommendation of mercy for Madeline. Eli's girl forgot again about being a lady. She pounded the table and screamed: "Please . . . please, I didn't!" Eli wept: "You have crucified...
When they asked him for his pedigree, the little guy who thought he had plenty of talent, but never got a break, snarled: "My business is a murderer. . . ." Eli and Cullen will die in the chair. His little lady will finish her life in prison...