Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...candidates who were the beneficiaries of this revolt of the voters against government which had ceased to be civilized and politics which was nothing more than rapine, grand larceny, degeneracy, sadism, privileged murder and systemized extortion, must be touched in the head if they think that the April election was merely a fleeting episode in the experience cf credulous or apathetic voters and that every one is willing to forget it and welcome all the blacklegs back at the table...
...tyranny of Serbia, which is the "Parent Kingdom" of that realm called Jugoslavia, which includes Croatia. Jugoslavs of national consciousness believe, however, that Stefan Raditch, whom they deem a demagog, was a pernicious influence, obstructing the eventual union of the Serbs, Croats and other South Slavian peoples. If his murder does not provoke a revolution in Croatia, it may yet prove to have been for the eventual good of the whole kingdom...
...Secretary of State of Kentucky, was sentenced to death. An underling of the State Auditor was sentenced to life imprisonment. Powers was pardoned, as was the third and foremost figure on the Republican side of the case, whose death last week at 76 from natural causes brought the Goebel murder back in the news...
...Someone knocked up the policeman's arm, thus saving to posterity a famed storyteller. Cub Cobb's name was Irvin S. Cobb, who lived to write Speaking of Operations, A Laugh a Day, Here Comes the Bride, etc., etc., and to reminisce last week about the Goebel murder, perhaps as famed a murder as there is in all hard-shooting Kentucky's history...
Soon one of the parents, Vladimir Orlovsky, an aviator, went home and destroyed his three-year-old idiot son. With lightning swiftness a Soviet court found him "technically guilty of murder," sentenced Aviator Orlovsky to six months in jail, then suspended the sentence, allowing him to remain free...