Word: killer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will give that one the bird in my review. Notwithstanding, almost at once comes along a beer baron who is none other than that grand little gee, Edward G. Robinson. I start to take notice; this Mr. Robinson has got the stuff, I decide. The story is a killer. In several ways it is a killer. First of all several gees get killed to help the plot along. Second, I get a few real laughs at this Mr. Robinson who almost fails in the brewery business before he tastes his own beer and discovers what is the trouble with...
...range and buried in the Everglades 20 miles west of Miami. Shrugging Seminoles there said that he was an evildoer sent to be buried among strangers. In John Billy's home village, investigators finally learned that he had been shot on Musa Isle outside of Miami, that the killer was none other than John Osceola himself...
...gouty, 78-year-old chief was found at Pirates' Cove sitting cross-legged and barefooted in his striped finery, placidly smoking a pipe. He did not deny the story. Mindful of the Seminole law that the friends of a killer must bring him gifts within three days or be forever branded as his enemies, police searched, discovered that John Osceola had just received some $50 in gifts. Then they arrested...
Previously held in disdain with its record of a single win, Princeton may assume the role of Giant Killer by toppling the circuit leaders from the Ivy League Bean Stalk...
...whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted the next by the unholy delight of feeding Pain-killer to Peter, the cat. The painful croppers of his acrobatic courtship of Becky Thatcher, the sharp thimble thumps of exasperated Aunt Polly, the ecstasy and heartache of runaway buccaneering and the bursting satisfaction of eavesdropping on his own funeral, the adventure of being lost in the great cave with Becky...