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Word: killers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When notorious killer Harvey Church fled Chicago, Carson trailed him to a village in the north Wisconsin woods. There, posing as Cook County State's Attorney, he nabbed the killer, bled him dry of news, then turned him over to the Chicago police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Muscle Journalist | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...second competition, the epee, will see the Crimson paced by Captain Amos Murphy. Lynn Brua, it is rumored, has already made a reputation for himself among the other teams as a "killer," having severely wounded his opponent in the epee event against Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FENCERS FAVORED TO SWEEP VACATION INTERCOLLEGIATES | 3/28/1941 | See Source »

...them. He had courage. In Paris once, when a bomb meant for him killed two of his carriage horses, he remarked that bombings were "only the risks of a king's business." In small things, too, he followed the aristocratic pattern, was a gourmet, a dandy, a lady-killer, with a pretty taste in motor cars-all with impeccable taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: End of a King | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...rainy night last week in Manhattan, Emil Nizich, 26, dock worker and small-time racketeer, was on his way to a gym for a game of basketball. He was shot three times from behind, left dead in the gutter. The killer made his getaway. An hour and a half later, a few blocks away, young Joseph Moran was checking the unloading of a ten-ton truck. A stranger stepped in out of the rain. "Who's Joe Moran around here?" he asked. "That's me," said Moran cheerfully. The stranger shot three times, killed Moran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Speaking of Crime | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

DEATH IN ECSTASY - Ngaio Marsh -Sheridan House ($2). Sacred Flame Limited, a piece of religious quackery in London, harbors heroin sniffers, pansies a killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: January Crime | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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