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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What manner of defense Mr. Darrow would set up for Mrs. Fortescue and her co-defendants remained a speculative secret last week. Undoubtedly he was relying on the probability that the prosecution had no eye-witness to the Kahahawai killing, would thus have to content itself with a circumstantial case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Mottled Jury | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Last week in Washington Assistant Attorney General Seth Richardson's report on Hawaii was published. Early this year the Senate, stirred by the Massie rape, the Kahahawai killing (see above) and the Navy's charge that its women were not safe in Hawaii, caused Attorney General Mitchell to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sex in Hawaii | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Only in China is kidnapping so common as in the U. S., but in China the prizes are seldom so rich, particularly since U. S. missionary societies have moved to discourage kidnapping by refusing to pay any ransoms whatever.* A rich prize is Capt. Charles Baker of Pasadena, who used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Kidnapping Kidnappers | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Thurso's wife, Helen, fears him more than she loves him, hates his destructive will that is irreversible as the tide. After a deer-killing she runs off with Thurso's friend, Rick Armstrong, and hides successfully for a year. When Thurso tracks her down she goes off with him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harrowed Marrow | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Neither tried nor sentenced to Death was John Wilkes Booth. After killing President Abraham Lincoln he escaped to Virginia, was tracked down and shot in a barn which his pursuers had ignited-though some say he escaped entirely, roamed the land for years incognito.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Deaths Decreed | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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