Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the lurid story disclosed by Detroit police to the Press last week. Their arrest of 16 Black Legionaries as suspects in the murder of Charles Poole, whose widow denied that he ever beat her, unearthed a sinister and hitherto little known U. S. nightshirt organization. Of late years Southern hillbillies, steeped...
This vexed another pugnacious pundit. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, 69, who gained fame & fortune as an alienist for the defense of Madcap Harry K. Thaw in 1907 when "brain storm" was first offered as a valid excuse for murder. Commented Psychoanalyst Jelliffe: "Dr. Sachs was talking ex cathedra. It's just a new attempt to spread the old gossip and scandal we've been fighting for 40 or 50 years. They don't like to see us get any fees...
...pranks the children commit, such as making a major catastrophe of a hotel Christmas tree and the party going on around it. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (RKO). A decorative dunderhead (Jean Arthur) who writes detective stories has a habit of dragging her surgeon-husband (William Powell; into real-life murder mysteries. When they are divorced she tries to get him back by entangling him in still another mystery, involving the murders of a jockey, a trainer and a crooked gambler...
...supporting, along with a host of telephones, automobiles, tanks, and machine guns. There is many an occasion for a belly-laugh, but one can't help feeling that the lavish spilling of blood militates a bit against the gaiety. "Forgotten Faces" shows Herbert Marshall, up the river for murder, nevertheless preventing Gertrude Michael, his extremely naughty wife, from blackmailing their daughter, adopted into respectability. There are some telling bits of psychological suggestion along the harrowing, strident...
...most virile pictures of the year. The redoubtable Joachim Murietta is sympathetically apologized for. "Unguarded Hour," with Franchot Tone and Loretta Young, is a collection of harrowing crises, foremost of which is the breaking of the district attorney's spectacular prosecution, simultaneous with his being accused of murder...