Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leopold story is old. It has been told. It isn't news any more. Don't worry. There'll be a new murder next week. SHIEK SLAYS SLAVE TOT. Throw a jolt into...
...murder in the first degree", declared Bob Lampoon, the incomparable jester, grand vizier and high lama at all of Lampy's festive functions. "When vandals slunk down under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...
...Born as the son of a gardner, John Paul appeared like an obscure speck in the middle of the broad canvas of the 18th Century-a canvas streaked with blood, murder, rebellion, greed, and many winds of doctrine." In Scotland, John Paul grew up on a rocky soil, dotted with small hard flowers, flanked by the blue and white banner of the sea. The sea, before long, became his native place; he loved ships and the spin of water under a whirling bow; he once wrote down: "I will not have anything to do with ships which do not sail...
...Social disturbance and murder until then rife at Barcelona, Valencia and Zaragoza have been absolutely quelled, peace and prosperity restored to those towns and in every part of the Peninsula where the rot was spreading...
...title is taken from a letter written by Mrs. Crosbie to her lover which summoned him to her bungalow the night of the murder. This letter, in the hands of the Chinese woman, leads to the discovery of her guilt after acquittal by a jury trial. The Trial of Mary Dugan. As the ever laggard audience strolled into the National Theatre they found the curtain up. It was an uninteresting, drab courtroom scene they saw and it, too, filled up gradually with actors-lawyers, policemen, scrub women, gum-chewing onlookers-who meandered onto the stage as haphazardly as the audience...