Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prognosticating about tomorrow's score. "Well," he hazarded, "Princeton's inexperienced, but they're fighters. Their Mountain is a great back, and center Casey is tough on defense. Remember, though, when your Harlow gets your team into the form it was in last year's Yale game, it will murder anybody, yes sir, even Pittsburg...
...Miss Manton (RKO Radio). Screwball comedy and screwball murder mystery combined, more happily than usual, with Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene and Frances Mercer...
Died. William Isaac Purvis, 66, who was hanged for murder in 1894, escaped death when his head slipped through the noose, was later pardoned; of heart disease; in Lumberton, Miss. Twenty-six years after his near-execution, when another man confessed to the murder for which Purvis was convicted, Mississippi voted Will Purvis a shamefaced $5,000 "for services rendered to the State...
Henriette was the notorious governess, "Mademoiselle D," who in 1847 was one of the central figures in the internationally famous murder trial, in Paris, of the Duc de Praslin, who was accused of the hatchet-murder of his voluptuous wife. (Because he committed suicide when arrested, the Praslin case is included among famous unsolved murders...
...just as the audience's heart begins to bleed for the lass, she herself turns out to be a cross between Lizzie Borden and Lady Macbeth, orders her suitor to kill the old man. When he accidentally kills somebody else, she calmly gets father hanged for the murder...