Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wounded. Next day Kelayres polled 24 Republican, 662 Democratic votes. Services for three of the dead were held in the bullet-scarred Church of the Immaculate Conception (see cut) at the same corner where they were killed. Twenty miles away Boss Bruno & relatives were in jail, charged with murder...
...This trade is a trade in murder!" rasped Major Clement Richard Attlee, presenting Labor's motion. "Armament companies, while not the sole nor the greatest cause of war, deliberately work against peace and disarmament. Take Vickers [Britain's No. 1 armorers]. In 1932 Vickers advertised its wares in German papers-weapons forbidden to Germany by the Treaty of Versailles! And who made the anarchy in China? It exists because China is one of the best fields for selling guns and munitions. Because nationals of the Civilized World have been arming the Chinese bandits...
...soon as it becomes apparent that Evelyn Prentice has a plot, seasoned cinemaddicts will easily guess the rest. The fact that the blackmailing poet keeps a revolver and a diary in his desk clearly indicates a murder to come. That John Prentice is a crack lawyer suggests a courtroom scene in which he will extricate his wife from difficulties. A squeaking little Prentice (Cora Sue Collins) guarantees that her parents will be estranged and reconciled. Although Evelyn Prentice is far from being an experiment, in either art or advertising, its conventional coils are expertly twisted and untwisted. For the most...
...Dmitri Nekhlyudov (Fredric March) goes to church with Peasant Katusha Maslova (Anna Sten), before seducing her in a greenhouse. Director Rouben Mamoulian allows his fondness for his scene to delay his story. Later, when Dmitri, a bearded patrician in the jury box, again meets Katusha, a prostitute accused of murder, the class antagonism which put them where they are is carefully accented to make more impressive Dmitri's gestures of remorse. The climax, in which he gives away his lands and accompanies Katusha to prison in Siberia, possesses most of the impact Tolstoy purposely wrote into...
...lives which would have been bound up with hers if she had stayed on earth: a disheartened Kansas City playwright; a female derelict whose seducer has abandoned her in Montreal; a cardsharp and the banker's daughter he is scheming to marry; a young socialite condemned for murder; a Manhattan play-boy and his mistress. Only in Act II, when she comes to read the projection of her own life as she should have lived it. does her role in their miscellaneous affairs become apparent...