Word: lindens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riots were biggest and worst in Greater Berlin, most extensive city on the European Continent (area 348 sq. mi.). While unconcerned tourists strolled Unter den Linden, the northwest suburbs of Berlin became a welter of knifing, bludgeoning and wild shots. Communists, defending their homes, ripped up paving stones, barricaded streets, stuffed their barricades with mattresses. The leader of a Fascist charge was shot dead as he went over the Red top. Police, clubbing furiously, no sooner restored order in one street than rioting broke out in the next...
...official identification of the remains. Then, as mute housewives watched over their back fences, he came out of the building following some men with a small oak box. He and Col. Henry Breckinridge, his companion and legal adviser through the past ten agonizing weeks, accompanied the box to Linden, N. J. In a square, grey building with a straight black smokestack cremation took place. The ashes were removed to Englewood where Mrs. Linbergh's widowed mother, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, lives...
...newspaper 4) introducing, at the last minute evidence that will exonerate him and catch the real culprits off their guard. His plan fails in the last detail. The evidence- a purse containing the name of the murderer's companion-is stolen and young Chick Brian (Eric Linden) seems likely to be chairman at an electrocution His fiancée (Dorothy Jordan), whose father is police chief, can do nothing to help him. He is saved finally by an unlikely combination of circumstances beginning when the real murderer arouses the resentment of his mistress by kicking her off a chair...
With a lively story and a few well-directed scenes in which Dorothy Jordan blubbers in affecting treble. Roadhouse Murder is passable melodrama. Most obvious of its flaws would have been corrected had Director J. Walter Ruben persuaded Eric Linden to deliver a few of his lines without a pathetic quaver...
...clock this morning, six fire engines, led by the chief's car and a giant hook-and-ladder raced to the scene of a fire which was rapidly consuming the seat of a Model A Ford car parked on the corner of Linden and Bow streets. With considerable difficulty, the entire front seat of the automobile was removed, the conflagration was extinguished, and the fire apparatus disappeared into the night...