Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Button's practice to call upon God as his witness when the honesty of his ventures is questioned. When his son accuses him of the murder of his seamen, Button automatically asks God to strike him dead if he is not innocent. According to Playwright Levy, God does, in the guise of the San Francisco earthquake...
...down to my room." The two went and Steinmetz followed. There the young husband beheld his wife and the priest half-undressed. Crying, "I don't like the looks of things," he whipped out a pistol, shot the pair dead. Next day Joseph Steinmetz was indicted for murder...
This fact is strikingly illustrated by the two great international crises of this year the murder of Chancellor Delltuss of Austria and the more recent assassination of King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia with its present Hungarian development. In the first case France and Italy, with the support of Great Britain, were united in opposing any extension of German influence into Austria. Since the little government was able to find no support It was willing to retreat and peace was preserved...
...issue, settlement by war is not worth the price. "All Quiet on the Western Front", is more than good peace propaganda, it is very good screen drama. It is stronger and more effective than recent anti-war-films because it is not merely a collection of stark scenes of murder and brutality, it is personalized, it brings the thing home and emphasizes the nearness of international slaughter to all of us, makes us feel that was is an imminent possibility for everybody and makes us strongly determined to avoid it in any way. At a time when...
...employer, whose identity she conceals from her husband. The prize-fighter discovers the two together just after they have been viewing samples of costume jewelry. In a scuffle the employer is killed. The prize-fighter wanders off in a daze while his wife is tried and convicted of murder. He returns in time to confess. How and why the prize-fighter escapes the electric chair, cinema audiences will understand only if they have seen the very beginning of Jealousy and waited patiently to the very last. Audiences who miss the whole thing will not be losers...