Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Etting, 42, famed torch singer, onetime cinemactress and stage star; and Myrl Alderman, 30, her onetime piano accompanist; she for the second time, he for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Miss Etting's first husband, Colonel Martin ("The Gimp") Snyder, is now on trial for attempting to murder Alderman...
...American side of the story does not have the thrill and suspense of the impending murder; it is a development of character and a picture of New York life in the pre-Civil War era. But there are the same pictures, the same compelling narrative style, the same intuition and insight into the workings of a woman's mind. "All This and Heaven Too" is Rachel Field's outstanding book. Her old readers will read it anyway; those unacquainted with her will find it one of the best novels of the fall...
Thomas Stearns Eliot '10, who has since become widely known as an author for his play "Murder in the Cathedral" and such poems as "The Waste Land", "Ash Wednesday", and "Gerontion", was an editor of the Advocate while in College...
Among the articles are two on Eliot's method in the drama by Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, and Theodore Spencer, assistant professor of English. Spencer writes on "Murder in the Cathedral" and Matthiessen's contribution is a "Note for an Unwritten Chapter" (of his "Achievement of T.S. Eliot...
...year-old father has moved to a small 30-acre farm on the edge of a little village. It tells less about cooking, more about people, their gossip, scandals, fighting, country dances. Its highlights are Nell Peters' illegitimate baby, Cousin William's scandalizing city wife, the axe murder of Aunt Het. Like The Country Kitchen, its charm is that it dramatizes the horse-&-buggy atmosphere of an old almanac...