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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Midnight. Last week Theatre Guild subscribers filed reverently through the Guild Theatre's handsome lobby, up the stairs past the bust of George Bernard Shaw and bumped right into a murder melodrama. For Midnight relates the tale of a law-abiding florist (Frederick Perry) who, as foreman of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

* The charges Judge Lyle apparently had in mind were old ones: the murder of Big Jim Colosimo (1920), who brought young Capone and Johnny Torrio to Chicago as his bodyguards; the killing of Joseph Howard, petty hijacker, in 1922.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: When is a Criminal? | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

H. G. Wells himself has written an introduction to this book, in which he informs you that "Geoffrey West's" real name is Geoffrey H. Wells, no relation, who adopted his pen-name to avoid confusion. Everything in the book, says Wells, is quite true as far as it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fairly Open Conspirator* | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

When the first uncertainty and wariness passes after reading the proposed plan, the immediate perception seems to be that the method outlined means something for nothing. A closer study, of course, reveals that it is not quite that, but that it is almost a matter of killing two birds with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REFERENDUM FOR SENIORS | 12/9/1930 | See Source »

New Tribe. On horseback, Desmond Holdridge, 24, explorer for the Brooklyn Museum, rode for 30 days from the mouth of the Amazon River to Rio Brasco in the jungle country of Brazil, close to the Venezulean border. With him went a native horse thief, the only guide brave enough to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Dec. 8, 1930 | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

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