Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*The Settlement was saved from Chinese gunfire solely by the fact that it harbored so many Occidentals that the Chinese dared not fire for fear of killing U. S. citizens, Britons. French-men.
The Beast of the City (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Partly because of protests from the Hays organization, 1932 gangster pictures will show criminals as craven rather than heroic. Cinema police, like Walter Huston in this picture, will be clever and courageous instead of timid nincompoops. But it is unlikely that even...
"Phosgene, which was the chief killing gas is not immediately painful, in fact, a man may breathe the gas for four hours and still keep fighting. The principal advantage of gas, however, is that it lowers the efficiency of the entire army more than 50 per cent because of the...
Prosecutor Seabury, wearied by what he considered time-killing legal casuistry, thought otherwise. "They may talk from now until doomsday," said he, "about schools of thought and kingly sovereignty, but they cannot show you any single statute or any plausible reason that lets a sheriff put the interest that accrues...
A killing along the Rio Grande made Nogales jump for Asia. Then he did military intelligence work prior to the Sino-Japanese War, cleared out to Alaska in time to save most of his skin. He followed gold down into Nevada, went broke with the boom, rustled cattle along the...