Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator and Mrs. William E. Borah of Idaho ceased sitting up at night to read about the Hall-Mills murder trial; Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada forgot for the moment that he was being sued for a personal note of $6,232.50; many another lawmaker laid down the cares of domestic life and strode up the steps of the Capitol. In the Senate chamber the gavel of Vice President Dawes smote his desk; in the House the gavel of Speaker Nicholas Longworth did likewise. The 69th Congress had begun its last and its "lame duck" session...
...policeman's eyes grew wide with alarm. Even the impeccable cravat and faultless morning clothes of Lord Lloyd did not dispel the Fascist's intuitive feeling that anyone who asked the whereabouts of Il Duce's villa must want to murder him. No taker of chances, the con stable arrested the British dictator of Egypt, hurried him to a police station...
...enormously popular Hall-Mills murder trial in Somerville, N. J., a syndicate press service last week introduced a reportorial method more intrusive than ever. It employed Fannie Hurst, smart Semite novelist of the "gusher" type with a working knowledge of popular psychoanalysis, to observe Mrs. Hall, widow and alleged destroyer of a faithless clergyman, a stolid-seeming woman whose expressionless demeanor upon the witness stand was baffling the sharpest gimlets in the press gallery...
...Temperamentally, through all the crucifixion of the months that preceded the tragedy of the murder of her husband and Mrs. Mills, this woman's bitter, salty tears must have flowed inward, drenching the wounds in her heart and soul...
...devil's tribe. Just as the crisis begins to crys tallize, the medieval conception of passion as the spirit of Lucifer takes hold. Immediately, the audience is persuaded to see Anne not as a witch but as a woman of more than ordinary emotional capacity. Even the murder of her husband is extenuated by a plausible explanation of heart failure. Hence, confusion. There is a catastrophe, but it is not so much inevitable as erroneous. About to be burned, Miss Brady gave vent to her favorite repertoire of ear splitting, nerve-searing shrieks, seemed on the verge of rabies...