Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caught in a forged chain of circumstantial evidence, Asther is convicted, sentenced to hang. Because of his wife's grief Kruger relents, tells police they have the wrong man, puts a bullet into his brain. Ably acted and directed, The Crime Doctor is noteworthy for the reptilian restraint with which Criminologist Kruger, without trying to trick his audience, commits his murder...
...Yard comes a new denizen of field and forest, a beast long since missing from urban confines. The how and wherefore of its appearance will always remain hidden in the shrouds of mystery, but as to its disappearance no stately veil shall long hang heavy there. Complacent bovines were once, and perhaps still may be allowed to roam gracefully through the greensward, and unmolested give their milk for Harvard, but birds and even beasts of other colors are ruthlessly driven from the protecting shelter, not, alas, out merely into the humdrum whirl of exhaust-filled urbanity, but straightway to meet...
Other evidence adduced last week of Presidential tastes: 1) The President and Mrs. Roosevelt selected 32 paintings from the Public Works exhibit at the Corcoran Art Gallery to hang in the White House offices. His favorite was Winter Street by A. H. Pearson of Chicago. The President said none of the pictures shows despondency and anyone can tell at a glance what they represent. 2) At a convention of bandmasters in Toronto. Lieut. Charles Benter, conductor of the U. S. Navy Band, reported that the President's musical tastes were "pretty broad," that for relaxation he liked to hear...
...Berlin Museum there was tacked a placard reading, TAKEN FROM GERMANY BY THE VERSAILLES TREATY, the Belgian Press bellowed, "Nazis!" Authorities, however, suspected a crank, hoped to retrieve the painting soon, for so well is it known no man could sell it, only a feudal baron could hang it with safety...
Fortnight ago the Mississippi Senate passed a bill to permit Clyde Collins, outraged father, to hang three Negroes convicted of attacking his daughter Mildred. Reason for the special privileges was that an appeal by him to a mob had saved the three attackers from lynching (TIME, March 19). Last week as the day for the hanging approached. Father Collins saw his chance of executing personal justice gradually fade. The Mississippi House buried the hanging bill in committee...