Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months famed Radio Engineer Wormys feared that a Nazi "murder party" from Germany would get him, as Nazis got German Philosopher Theodor Lessing, shot two summers ago at Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Herr Wormys had reasons for his fears. Once the chief technician of the radio station near Stuttgart and an ardent Nazi, he has been for some months the secret Impresario of anti-Nazi broadcasts by Adolf Hitler's deadliest personal foe, Otto Strasser...
...Herman was killed some years ago after a jewel robbery. Son Lloyd was sent to Leavenworth. Son Arthur received a life sentence to Oklahoma State Penitentiary for murder, but his mother got him paroled. Then she and he and Son Fred joined Alvin Karpis in heading what the Department of Justice's J. Edgar Hoover called the brainiest, most dangerous gang in the U. S. Their brains, said the chief of the Federal Division of Investigation, were in the head of plump, thin-lipped, shrewish "Ma" Barker. Outstanding among their feats of killing, bank robbery and kidnapping...
...whose living comes from giving unimaginative socialites just such tips on how to have fun. A fat, nervous spinster whose business slogan is "It's too, too divine!" she went from San Francisco to Europe to teach boom-time U. S. millionaires and miscellaneous princelings how to have Murder Parties, Come-As-You-Were-When-the-Autobus-Called Parties, Scavenger Parties, Come-As-Somebody-Else Parties, Come-As-Your-Opposite-Parties, Come-As-the-Person-You-Like-Best Parties. Elsa Maxwell gave them, somebody else paid for them. After the crash, she returned to Manhattan via Hollywood, to cash...
...last week Alexander Woollcott was still enough of a newspaper reporter to go to Flemington, N. J. to cover the fourth week of the Hauptmann trial for North American Newspaper Alliance. Proud is he of his early experiences as a Manhattan newshawk in the days of the Herman Rosenthal murder and the sinking of the Titanic. Yet he can, on occasion, forget his reporter's training long enough to put extra barbs on some paragraph of gossip, or to roll a log for one of his favorites. His humor has much of the feminine savagery of Dorothy Parker...
...Yugoslavian version the prodigal's mother and sister did the murder, the mother hanged herself, the sister threw herself into a well. The A. P. dispatch, however, added one new bit of journalistic invention: "The 10,000 dinars will pay for a triple funeral...