Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formula of a backstage musicomedy, ends in the formula of a courtroom melodrama. The transition occurs when someone murders the leading lady (Florence Desmond) of a Paris revue, just after her advances to the show's male dancer (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) have aroused the indignation of his knife-throwing wife (Dolores...
...Manhattan, Bert Lascoff, 20, explained to police that he woke from "a bad dream" to find that he had chased his father out of their bedroom, pursued him through five rooms, stabbed him eight times with a bread knife...
...cutting herself a slice of bread in her tenement room when her drunken son Patrick blundered in, demanding money. He knocked her down when she refused. Undaunted she got to her feet screaming, "you had better kill your mother and be done with it." Son Patrick took the bread knife and obliged her. He was the first man to be condemned to death in Buffalo in six years. It was the duty of the sheriff to hang him. The young sheriff went home to his mother Ann, widow of a Presbyterian parson, in Holland Patent; N. Y., to ask what...
...dislodge the star image from the cross-wires. Last week astronomers Albert E. Whitford and G. E. Kron of the University of Wisconsin announced satisfactory preliminary tests of a robot which, they hope, will relieve stargazers of this dull task. Light from the star is split by a reflecting .knife edge so that two beams fall on a photoelectric cell. If in the telescope the star image gets off the cross-wires, the two beams become unequal. The proper adjustment is then made by a mechanism in which the photoelectric current is amplified one quintillion times by a Zworykin electron...
...Miller saw Hnri Désiré ("Bluebeard") Landru guillotined in a Versailles street for butchering ten women and a boy. When the warders flung the murderer on the machine, part of the platform collapsed, but they managed to clamp his neck under the knife anyway. The heavy blade fell and Mr. Miller observed that "a hideous spurt of blood gushed out." Time elapsed: 26 sec. Three years later, star Reporter Miller turned war-weary eyes on other Frenchmen potting Riffs. In 1930 he hurried from London to cover Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India. While Mr. Miller...