Word: killers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coaxed her father for a racket. Four years later, under famed Coach Mercer Beasley, she wielded it with such proficiency that she won the National Girls' Championship. In 1928 she met John Van Ryn who, just out of Princeton, was winning recognition on the courts as a "giant-killer." By talking shop at tournament after tournament, they became fond of each other. In 1930 they were married...
...Bach, who play Henry Hardcastlc. insisted that Love on the Dole be keyed low. demanded from his actors the understatement which packs the play with dramatic dynamite. In the brief time she has been on the stage, no amount of directing could account for the amazing performance of Wendy Killer. An untrained natural, now only 21, she was playing in a Manchester stock company when Collaborators Gow & Greenwood found her. They selected her because she looked good in shorts and had the Lancashire accent necessary for the part of Sally Hardcastle. They got more than they bargained for because...
...killed her husband. As she sat in the family car, said Mrs. Liggett, she had seen Kid Cann lean out of a passing automobile and fire the fatal shots. At Kid Cann's trial, which began late in January, a second witness also identified him as the killer. This witness, who was in the alley behind the Liggett apartment, said he recognized Kid Cann because they had served time together in the local workhouse...
...public is using it widely to obtain temporary relief, when the dentist cannot be reached, particularly in rural districts. Naturally the dentists know this, but frown upon the practise because people will not see the dentist as often, as long as they have a harmless and convenient "pain killer" in their medicine chests...
...because so far she has known only a primeval lump of brawn that plays football. And Leslie in turn looks wistfully upon her eager energy. But nothing would come of it all if it weren't for the entrance at this point of Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart), a savage killer who reminds the granddaddy in the picture of Billy the Kid and the other old-time desperadoes. The Duke imposes a reign on terror on the little roadhouse, and precipitates all sorts of emotional shifts, strains, and crises. Leslie decides that he admires the adamantine killer as the last...