Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leadership of the colleges. The war is over. Politics grows less interesting as it departs from class and college issues, and by the time it has reached world affairs it is anathema. The sporting page of the newspapers has ten readers for every one of the first page. A murder case is much more discussed than even the pictures ue gyrations of General Dawes...
...Teifer Murder Trial" will be the subject of an address by Mr. Simon Fleischmann of Buffalo, N. Y., which will be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House. This meeting will be held under the auspices of the Law School Society, but is open to all students in the University, and is the last address in the present series...
...news of the hour. We pass from thrill to thrill almost without pause; and the greatest thrill of all is to know that one's name is in every newspaper and on every lip. No less than eight people, for example, have confessed in turn to the murder of the banker Elwell, and each in turn has been proved a liar after a day or two of dazzling front page existence. Is it any wonder that serious people advocate a jail sentence for false confessions which 'put the police to so much trouble for nothing...
...remarkably able anatomist, and was widely known to the public through the fact that he was called in to testify in many murder trials where it was suspected that poisoning had taken place and the judgment of an expert anatomist was desired...
...flaring headlines and imaginative write-up men, we cannot be too careful in sampling the multifarious and savory morsels dealt out to us by the public press. Under the skilful hand of inventive genius-by dint of adding a detail here and a touch of color there-assault becomes murder, a riot rebellion, until all sense of perspective is lost. When interest in European or World politics leads us to discuss the problems of the day, let us be sure we know whereof we speak, Our daily newspapers publish much propaganda that is American-made: either side of a question...