Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hired a photographer, erratic, long-bearded Eadweard Muybridge, to take pictures of horses in motion at his Palo Alto stud farm. The first experiments were all failures. There followed an interlude while Photographer Muybridge was tried and acquitted under unwritten law for the murder of his wife's lover. Meanwhile Governor Stanford became impatient, hired a young engineer named John D. Isaacs who finally arranged a battery of cameras along a track, wired their shutters electrically so that they could be opened and closed in succession as a running horse went by. Using this device, by 1881 Muybridge...
...train and spent an innocent night in the fields. When they got to London they were arrested. Unfortunately for them, that same night Mrs. Newcome had taken an overdose of sleeping pills. It was an open-&-shut case. Before they were both hanged for Mrs. Newcome's murder, they were allowed to see each other once more. Then they went bravely to their deaths, innocent of everything...
...Paramount it is currently a relief to turn from the spy to the mystery story. The mystery, "Murder Goes to College," finally provides some measure of recognition to Lynne Overman. Given just a flavoring of original material to work with, he moulds it to advantage in creating almost single-handed an entirely insignificant but highly enjoyable hilarity atmosphere...
Even the presence of Lorre can't offset the dialogue and pilot sufficiently to keep the vehicle afloat. It might also be said that there is a love element in "Crack Up," even as it might be added that Buster Crabbe appears with pants on in "Murder goes to College...
This was the first mass murder ever effected directly by a chemical agent in war.* The Germans made a 3½-mile breakthrough, would have penetrated much more decisively had the German high command had more confidence in their new weapon before it was tried...