Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degrees, from the optimist who says they are an added force of enlightenment, to the lugubrious individual who traces to them all the evils of a crime-ridden world. To suppose that a man, simply because he has seen a sensational movie, will be impelled to go home and murder his grandparents for their inheritance, elope with his neighbor's wife, and wreck two trains and a house in the process, is patently ridiculous. Yet there is a grain of truth in the allegation which cannot be denied--many movies of today are to some extent responsible for loweringmen...
Lieutenant-Colonel Robbins said in conclusion that war should be made a crime under international law, as murder is under common...
...comedian, John Murphy, to crack another joke. Nor was it ever disappointed; the joke was always forth-coming and, what is more, it was always good. After two minutes of Mr. Murphy, no one in the house was able to take as anything but a joke the murder of a financier, the hysterics of his wife, or the calm plot of the hero to have himself killed so that his life insurance might save his bank from ruin. Yet somehow, there is no hint of burlesque in this rendering of the "detective" theme; it is not that the play "makes...
...wonderful knowledge of material forces and used its knowledge to create poisonous gases and destructive bombs and a gun that could carry shells I know not how many miles; but it was so lamentably ignorant of human nature that it thought that it could violate women, enslave men, murder defenceless children, and make war on churches, libraries, and hospitals, in order to destroy a commercial rival, and that the civilized world would look on and see it done with only feeble and meaningless protests...
...student coming as a transfer from a college where it would be inviting next to murder to sit in the cheering section and cheer for the other side, this business seems very strange. Nobody is being condemned for cheering for the other side; far from it. But to show so little tact and good taste as to sit in the Harvard cheering section and cheer for the other side, is a thing that one would place above the average person with a particle of grey matter in his head. The people who do this know very well that they could...