Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racket is a trade or vocation which is loud, bold and often illegal. For example, there is the bootlegging racket, the murder-for-money racket, the dry cleaning racket (in which Gangster "Scarface Al" Capone of Chicago was hired to protect a group of dry cleaners). A racketeer is one who practices a racket...
...late Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1868 to 1882. For that sentimental reason he last week asked his King to accept his resignation. His resignation was without precedent. Heretofore archbishops of Canterbury, ever since Augustine first held that seat (597-605), have quit office only through orthodox murder or natural death. No religia-political pressure caused Dr. Davidson's decision; not even his double defeat by the House of Commons over his efforts to revise the Book of Common Prayer. He continues one of the brightest intellects in the House of Lords...
...dance which is really a fight for a camera crank, with Miss Pat kicking, biting, and wrapping her legs about the neck of Scoop Morgan. Later, the Maharajah discovers that he has been photographed; he swoons. A doctor offers to aid him, takes him to a tent, murders him, steals his precious emerald. And, all the while, Miss Pat, hidden in an adjoining tent, is recording every detail of the murder with her camera. How this scoop of scoops reached the office and what happened to Miss Pat are done in the best delayed-climax manner...
Telling the World. Disinherited by his banker-father though he is, the hail-fellow (William Haines) strides into a newspaper office and tells the city editor he wants a job. His first assignment is to interview his father. Another assignment is to cover a murder case, in which a girl is wrongfully accused. He neglects to make the edition and goes running off to China with the girl. Things like that do not happen to newspaper reporters...
Married. Draper M. Daugherty, 41, son of onetime U. S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty ("Ohio Gang"); to Estelle Sturges, secretly, at Tucson, Ariz., after both had obtained Mexican divorces. Questioned by the police in 1923 concerning the mysterious murder of his friend Dorothy Keenan, Mr. Daugherty was shortly thereafter committed as an inebriate to Stamford Hall Sanitarium, on the petition of his wife, and in 1925 was sent to the Ohio State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. In 1926, he was released...