Word: killer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nova Scotia-of catching giant bluefin tuna ("horse mackerel" to old salts) on rod & reel. Up the coast at Liverpool a Cuban team had just won this year's international tuna matches from a U. S. and a British team, in a tournament that fizzled sadly when some killer whales hanging off that harbor scared the big tuna away (or so Liverpudlians claimed) and only a few small school tuna were caught by all the elegant sportsmen with fancy tackle and theories...
...since 1830, before Michigan became a State, had anyone been executed in Michigan.† Governor Frank Murphy thought trying to preserve that tradition would be a popular gesture. With Killer Chebatoris scheduled to hang at the Federal Detention Farm in Milan, Mich, last week. Governor Murphy appealed to President Roosevelt to have Chebatoris hanged in some other State...
...Executioner Phil Hanna of Illinois went to Milan. There last week, still sneering, Killer Chebatoris took the plunge that broke his neck. Obituary by Michigan's Murphy: "Michigan has led the world in the civilized attitude toward criminals. The hanging today was a blot on our century-old tradition, but I hope that it will have the effect of helping to abolish capital punishment from all the States in the Union...
...finest crews in rowing history and one of the greatest stroke oars of all time. Spike Chace, son of a Park Avenue physician, rowing his last race for Harvard, was the hero of the day. His name was bracketed with that of William ("Foxey") Bancroft (1878) and Gerry ("Killer") Cassedy (1933), the only two other oarsmen in Harvard annals who ever set the beat for three victories in a row over Yale. Having won the freshman and junior varsity races in the morning and the combination race the evening before, Harvard registered a clean sweep over Yale for the first...
...worst it is melodrama with coincidental cracks through which a cat could be thrown with ease. Laid against a background of Brighton Beach, London's Coney Island, the story has for central character a hollow-chested, downy-cheeked 17-year-old called Pinkie, a gangster ascetic who turns killer as a release from slum-made inhibitions: disgust with sex originating with his father and mother, religious neurosis originating with his early ambition to be a priest...