Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife, was shot and killed last May by members of an insignificant secret society which had delusions of vigilante grandeur (TIME, June 1 & 8). Last week twelve members of this shoddy "Black Legion" stood up in Detroit court to be sentenced for their shoddy crime. Eight, guilty of murder, got life sentences; four, guilty of second degree murder, got three and one-half to 20 years...
...house, insults a friendly grand mother who lives next door and drives the servants into giving notice. It is a long worm which has no turning. Walter Craig's rebellion starts when an accident makes it unmistakably clear that his wife would rather see him accused of murder than let herself be touched by a scandal. When it is over. Harriet seems unlikely to recover from her pain at the discovery that those who live to themselves are left to themselves...
...Lucien Hubbard. Why such a product should call for twin entrepreneurs remains mysterious, since The Longest Night is designed rather for the Saturday morning diversion of schoolchildren than for the august judgment of the cognoscenti. It is a reasonably brisk embodiment of what neighborhood houses expect from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator, a kleptomaniac (Etienne Girardot), archery practice by a floorwalker, a couple of corpses and Ted Healy as a police sergeant, fumbling helplessly with...
...went to Oxford at 17 on a scholarship, saw a Somerset Maugham play which dissipated his notions of becoming a schoolteacher. Emlyn Williams has written five successful plays. He has grey-streaked hair, likes unpressed clothes, long, cold drinks and convivial company, haunts courtrooms, reads accounts of murder trials voraciously, claims that the character of Dan in Night Must Fall (first of his plays produced in the U. S.) is a psychological synthesis of five notorious British malefactors...
...appeared. Honestly and simply, it presents the reader with all the clues in the order and in the fashion that the police uncover them, lets him form his own conclusions about the crime. File on Bolitho Blane is a collection of various objects found at the scene of a murder, together with telegrams, memoranda, stenographic reports of interviews with suspects, bound together in a bulky loose-leaf binding. First exhibit is a telegram from Carlton Rocksavage to the police of Miami, Fla., announcing the suicide on his yacht of Bolitho Blane. Next is a police memo ordering Officer Keys Kettering...