Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moral lesson the Dostoievsky classic teaches is limited in its application. If shows how a brilliantly intellectual man with nerves breaks down under the weight on his conscience of a murder he has committed and for which an innocent man is in danger of being executed. If it had general application, if it depicted the mental process of all murderers, we would have no unsolved murders. We must presume the perpetrators of the unsolved crimes have neither consciences nor nerves, thus the "Crime and Punishment" theme cannot apply to them...
...interested in as we view the picture are the mental process of the individual who committed the murder, a part played brilliantly by Peter Lorre; and the patience and cunning displayed by the police inspector (Edward Arnold) in allowing the crime to solve itself. All the scenes in which these two accomplished actors come face to face, are gripping exemplifications of dramatic art at its best...
...from their wives and each with a grown-up child, the enemies were settled in London. Sharpies began to dog Wace's trail again, went out of his way to shadow him, wrote him letters. . . . Gradually Wace became convinced that Sharpies' hounding was a deliberate incitement to murder. He fought against it as long as he could, eventually let himself be incited...
...membership. Upshot was that he and Socialist Norman Thomas went into a huddle and the Mayor of Tampa gave Police Chief Tittsworth "indefinite leave of absence" to "investigate the case." First, six Tampa police-men were suspended. Last week they and two other suspects were indicted for second degree murder for participating in the Shoemaker flogging...
...other World War to distract the Great Powers from dismembering her. To get into the League, though, was most difficult. Egypt was then and is still barred, for the reason that Britain suspected then and now knows for certain that Egypt, once inside the League, would scream bloody murder for the British to evacuate Egypt. Ethiopia was at first barred. Then Ethiopian statesmen, largely inspired by Prince Tafari, began yielding deceptively to French and Italian efforts to obtain more important concessions in the empire than had ever been granted before. In 1923 the French and Italians congratulated themselves that...