Word: maniacs
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...emerges from a casement window, catches sight of the officer still weltering bloodily on the hedge, hurries away, slightly ruffied by the event. Scotland Yard at last has a clew; if they find the cracksman who stole the $256,000 dollar diamond, they feel certain they will have the maniac swordsman who stuck the policeman from behind the hedge, who had killed four other police in almost as many nights, who had kept the newspapers in an orgy of headlines by his postcard warnings which preceded each crime: "TONIGHT...
...uninteresting a character as the Mr. Lewis has yet turned out. In this he burns an insatiable passion for the temptation of the Perfect American Inn, similar to the poet's dreams of writing the Perfect Poem. Myron is not a business man steeped in Babbittry, but a maniac whose fanaticism, tempered with practical vision and intelligence, carries him from his father's sleepy hostelry in Black Thread, Connecticut, to the top rank of the "Mine Hosts" of America. His vicissitudes in the course that progress constitute the thread the story, and Myron's whole life...
...Director Lang's productions, by his wife. Thea von Harbou. It is all in German, with fairly adequate English subtitles superimposed. Peter Lorre distinguishes himself in a magnificent cast by his haunting performance as the murderer. Good shot: the pudgy young man after seeing himself described as a maniac, peering into a mirror and stretching his mouth to see if he looks crazy...
...maniac, no art critic, was the Milwaukee thief who last week stole six paintings from the watchmanless Milwaukee Art Institute. He took Roy Brown's October, Trepied France, Cullen Yates's In the Delaware Valley, Peter Rotier's Deep Pond and September, Agnes Leindorffs The Sketch Class and a marine by William Ritchell. A fortnight ago someone stole the Institute's Study of a Nude by the late William Wallace Gilchrist Jr. The Institute's secretary said that though it could not afford a night watchman, no one had ever taken anything before...
...Sweringen interests were the first to start operations. By an ingenious use of intermeshed holding companies . . . and the funds of the throng who were eager in the days of maniac prosperity to invest in holding companies, they put to-together [the C. & O.] system. . . . Twice our approval was sought and twice it was refused...