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Word: killer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vincent Coll, the "baby killer" whose careless slugs were suspected when a rampaging Manhattan machine gun ripped into a four-year-old boy asleep in his carriage, cried to Liebowitz and Liebowitz got him off. Vera Stretz shot her German lover, Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, dead. Liebowitz saved her. Violinist Mischa Rosenbaum, last April murdered his pupil and mistress, Julia Nussenbaum, in a drunken orgy, slobbered to Liebowitz. The County believed Liebowitz' boast that they could never get a first-degree conviction, accepted a guilty plea of second-degree murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Scottsboro Hero | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Rockland State Hospital where Irwin had once been a mental patient. "I feel like a nickel now," mumbled Miss Koscianski.-"I didn't call the police because I just thought it was a coincidence. I didn't have the nerve to think of him actually as a killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Easter Killer | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...squid, octopi, dogfish, deepwater crabs. The Commission also believes that there are enough natural checks to keep sea lions from, increasing too fast. It takes six weeks for the pups to learn to swim, and many are drowned before they learn. Others are trampled to death by careless parents. Killer whales and sharks eat sea lions young and old. One big killer whale's stomach, when opened, was found to contain the remains of eight sea lions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Sea Lions | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...with indecent burlesque shows. It appears that the manner in which they would conduct the new enterprise, with its appeal to the lowest instincts of its patrons, would not in any way be changed from the old manner of producing burlesque shows." Thus New York License Commissioner Paul Moss, killer of burlesque (TIME, May 10), refused Brothers Morton and Herbert K. Minsky a license to present a "high class variety revue.'' Shouted Brother Morton: "We'll match our private lives with the Commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 14, 1937 | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Inside the hospice, Marie-Anne shortly died with deep gashes in her face and body. Great was the grief of the brotherhood of St. Bernard, but the monks maintained they could not identify the killer. They locked up the entire pack "as punishment," gave as the only possible explanation of the tragedy their belief that the guilty dog must have "suddenly gone mad." Sorrowed the Father Superior: "We are in deep mourning here, not only for this unfortunate girl, but for the honor of our dogs that has been unblemished for centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Mid Snow & Ice | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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