Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with questions, Dr. House claims, the auditory centers "set off" the chain of memory, and the replies disclose what actually happened, because the patient is powerless to contrive any deception or rational defense. Dr. House used the drug at San Quentin, the California penitentiary, on three prisoners, convicted of murder, grand larceny and various crimes. The stories told under the influence of scopolamin " proved" the alleged murderer innocent, gave previously concealed evidence of identity in another case and secured a confession of a third. The drug also was used in a Berkeley murder case, justifying previous acquittal. It has been...
Bitter anti-Zionism that results in the brutal murder of British Bobbies...
Books about sex?the 17 unsuccessful imitations of The Sheik?the 102 detective stories in which the murder occurs in a hermetically sealed room sans exits or entrances? innumerable books about small Middle Western towns?wondering why there should be so many books about small Middle Western towns?Babbitt?calling other people babbitts? being called a babbitt? The Bright Shawl with the only undersexed hero in recent fiction?goods books? books not even a reviewer would sell second-hand?the first half of The Judge?Lady into Fox?Through the Wheat?A Pocketful of Poses? Beasts, Men and Gods?letters...
...course of the nine stories for which Gibson is responsible, from an inebriated Kentucky Colonel's affair with a "lady of the ensemble" to an H. G. Wells tale of a machine in which one sees what has happened in the past by delaying the journey of light rays. Murder, royal jewels, ghosts, all find their place in the volume; some of the stories are exceedingly droll, one is gripping, several are mediocre and one or two are asinine. On the whole, however, the stories are braced up by the ingenious manner in which the reader becomes interested...
...work of collecting, sorting, and baling the paper was done by the "down but not outers." For the Goddess. The third chapter of II Kings gives an account of human sacrifice to appease an angry god. Last week six members of a tribe in southern Rhodesia were convicted of murder. They had burned to death one Manduza in order to appease the rain goddess whom they thought he had violated. No rain had fallen for weeks, and it was held by them that he had caused the drought by offering her violence. His father, the chief of the tribe, consented...