Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the three skiers, their murder party over, had fled. Finding the frontier barrier closed to their car in the dead of night, they crossed into Germany on foot. But in Europe a good car is too valuable to be abandoned. At dawn they thriftily sent for their car, got it back well before the murder was discovered...
...make sure that Brooks's activities did not exceed U. S. folk custom and include murder, the inquisitor last week ordered men with mattocks, picks and shovels to hack into the frozen sand among the Brooks's birches. Soon the chilled diggers pried out two infants wrapped in old newspapers. One of the infants seemed to have had a fractured skull...
Crime and Punishment (adapted by Victor Trivas & Georg Schdanoff; Wolfson & Sherry, producers). Fyodor Dostoievsky's solemn sermon to the effect that murder will out has been dramatized before and will doubtless be dramatized again. This particular adaptation of the Russian narrative is no less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches...
...With his gains of violence he can settle down under an olive tree and live happily ever after. But the gunman's ex-colleagues are loath to have him go. Two of them board the train, quietly pass the word among the passengers that, as witnesses to a murder, their stay in the U. S. will be indefinitely lengthened. After the murder, Nowhere Bound rather surprisingly turns from pretty good melodrama to pretty good farce...
...HARSH VOICE-Rebecca West- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Four ironic novelettes by the aging enfant terrible of literary London. Three turn on the comic interplay of differing conceptions of love, one on murder...