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Word: ida (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...clay must have stuck to the murderer's clothes, but he got away! He got away!" the detective'pretends to gloat, then screams as he throws back the lid of the coffin, "AND HERE IS MARIA HAHN!"-or Ida Reuter, or whoever he had been talking about. As the coffin flew open a powerful jack-in-the-box mechanism would cause the blood-stained body of the girl-victim to sit bolt upright-or such was the effect of a life-size wax dummy doing duty for the corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crime Club | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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