Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bloodstained motor car was trundled last week into the courtyard of the tiny Court of Assizes at Chieti among the Abruzzi hills. In that car had been murdered Giacomo Matteotti, millionaire, Socialist, Deputy, a man marked by all Fascists as the foe of Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 23, 1924). From the spark of tragedy ignited by his death a powder train of suspicion flamed toward Mussolini and was barely stifled without blowing up the Fascist party. The entire Aventine Opposition walked out of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and has not returned* as a protest against both the crime itself...
...prosecution closed by demanding a verdict of manslaughter, saying that while it was unbelievable that Matteotti died of a brain storm, yet there was no premeditated murder...
...AERONAUTICS.) 4) What makes cows give more milk? What (same thing) makes hens lay more eggs? (See Music.) 5) Whose 83-year-old sister heard tributes by radio in her Brooklyn home? (See POLITICAL NOTES.) 6) Who dared to defend the five Fascists accused of the murder of Socialist Matteotti? (See ITALY.) 7) In what act of Ibsen's Ghosts does Libertine Alving appear? (See THE THEATRE.) 8) What two great cities were last week connected by commercial telephone for the first time? (See COMMONWEALTH.) 9) Was Molly Pitcher killed in action ? (See POLITICAL NOTES. ) 10) What have buggies...
...HIGH ADVENTURE?Jeffery Farnol?Little, Brown ($2). "We are out upon the high adventure, you and I; battle, murder and sudden death, Bill; blood, fire and stricken field are all one to us. Show me your teeth?excellent! Look at these fists?sufficient, I venture to think. . . . Come!" Thus Jeremy Veryan to his dog as he sets out across Mr. Farnol's newest pages to escape a crabbed guardian, find his father's murderer and woo a real storybook heroine in that most romantic of epochs, the day of The Broad Highway. Nothing further is necessary to introduce this book...
...public relishing news of a domestic nature, editorials couched in simple sentences and expressing the precepts of simpletons, and, above all, pictures illustrating stories of comprehensible disgrace or honor. It finds equal and not different attraction in moral turpitude and mundano triumph; on the one hand, robberv murder, and divorce; on the other, limerick contests, daring rescues, and political coups...