Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the crowd chanted, "I'm Headin' for the Last Round Up," "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You," "Bye, Bye, Blackbirds." Finally Hernando went home to breakfast. Same day five other Negroes were executed- one at Tupelo, Miss, for murder; two at Raleigh, N. C. for murder; one for murder, one for rape, at Milledgeville...
...President Garfield as the Round-the-World Dollar liner neared New York. Shortly afterwards Gilliam Sessoms was found on the floor stabbed in the shoulder and stomach. Three days after the vessel docked in Jersey City he died. Arrested by Federal agents on the charge of murder on the high seas, Andrew Kirwan refused to identify himself...
...Dubonnet. Her five unions have produced four children. Awaiting trial and his mother in Manhattan last week, Son Andrew admitted his identity, explained that until he boarded the President Garfield he had never made a trip alone in his life. If tried, convicted and sentenced to death for murder on the high seas, he will be executed by the Federal Government on Federal property-possibly Governors Island, possibly the roof of the Post Office Building...
...almost immediate second marriage. Although he is acquitted, the whisper of poisoner still persists. The village doors are locked at night. Twined throughout the district are the tendrils of the Forster family, spoiled and queer from intermarriage and frustration. When death of the clan's head reveals murder for pride, the village breathes again, but does not understand...
...part is remarkable for the restraint with which Lederer handles it, a restraint upon which the whole structure of the film turns, and which must have been difficult of attainment. He is required to pass his well-loved wives around among his friends, to lose a wife, to murder, and to suffer excess of thought; through all these turns with lady Fate, he avoids heroics, and at the same time veers away from the equally dangerous wall of intellectually squalid sentimentality which might so easily block his performance; he covers a middle-ground of mindless, emotionally dulled savagery which...