Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arthritic and otherwise broken-down writer of detective tales take issue with the statement under the heading of Art (TIME, Aug. 31, p. 22), that "as far as police authorities could remember, it was the first time that an attempt had been made to solve a murder by reconstructing the probable appearance of a victim with the aid of a sculptured bust...
...from the New York State Police barracks at Hawthorne, N. Y. last week and propped up before hard-boiled detectives at New York City's police headquarters. As far as police authorities could remember, it was the first time that an attempt had been made to solve a murder by reconstructing the probable appearance of the victim with the aid of a sculptured bust...
...beautiful U. S. insurance claim investigator named Caryl Fenton (Constance Cummings) drags him away to look for some lost jewels in Scotland. When the train is wrecked on the way, Harwood discovers the missing body in the wreckage, shrewdly suspects that the wreck was intentional to hide the murder. He bets the French police inspector on the scene $5.000 that he will find the criminal. There follows, as in The Thirty-Nine Steps, a series of extraordinary adventures, with two more train wrecks, a half-dozen murders, shots in the night, rough & tumble fights, many a comically dangerous interview...
...Purnea, Bihar, poisonous snakes pursued three perjurers emerging from a murder trial, bit them to death...
...Ambassador Claude Bowers called Azafia the greatest living Spaniard, compared his ideals with those moderate motives which inspired George Washington and the American Colonists to shake off English Kingship. In Spain the Right knew what to think when Republican Azafia proved unable to suppress political violence and murder even in the streets of Madrid, made the philosophical assertion: "Violence is deeply enshrined in the Spanish people. The time has not yet come for Spaniards to stop shooting one another." President Azafia made a still greater sensation with his dictum: "The only person whose views are always correct is Azana...