Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes from a popular I.W.W. song, The Preacher and the Slaves: . . . Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie, in the sky, When you die- It's a lie! The song, written by Joe Hill (executed for murder in 1915) and sung to the tune of In the Sweet Bye and Bye, was intended to counteract Salvation Army propaganda, reflects orthodox radical agnosticism...
Mysterious Mr. Moto (Twentieth Century-Fox). Peter Lorre and a cast of assorted spies, footpads and detectives thwarting the murder of a Czechoslovakian steel magnate...
...Knickerbocker. According to Mr. Knickerbocker, if Arabs run short of ammunition, they take it from the police. If they lack money, they rob a British bank. If annoyed at Jewish ownership of land, they destroy deed records in the Land Registry Office. Not one British policeman risks murder by patrolling Jerusalem streets after midnight. Knickerbocker conclusions: "Nowhere in the British Empire, save perhaps among the savage tribes of the Northwest Frontier [India], do such conditions of disorder and contempt for British authority exist as today in Palestine...
...pretty farm girl and a handsome British deserter. When she falls in love with the deserter, he takes fright at her reckless passion, tries to escape. Promptly retrieved, he resists no further. Two months later, the war ended, he is so hypnotized that he agrees to murder the returning general. By a rather far-fetched accident, the general technically commits suicide, but under circumstances which, even if believed, would in those days have failed to save even a beautiful defendant. The piling up of circumstantial evidence brings the lovers to trial. After a false confession which saves her weak-kneed...
...MURDER À LA STROGANOFF-Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon-Crime Club ($2). Further bizarre caperings among the Russian troupe who survived A Bullet in the Ballet. While embellished by such trimmings as Wodehouse dialogue, the plot is sufficiently mystifying to satisfy addicts who like them straight...