Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Campaigns for Freshman Smoker positions, already packed with more stunts and gags than any in recent years, yesterday produced a cold-blooded "murder," a baby-kissing spree, a mammoth aerial billboard, and another owl-hunting expedition...
...Hummon") Talmadge acted fast. On his orders, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation moved in with dispatch. Four days later it had its own answer to who killed Robert Mallard. As she left her husband's funeral services, Mrs. Mallard was arrested by the G.B.I. on a charge of murder. Blandly, the arresting officer, Lieut. William E. McDuffie, announced: "It is our belief that they [the Klan] are not guilty of shooting Mallard." But he gave no basis to reporters for charging Mrs. Mallard. Dumfounded and hysterical, the widow screamed again that men in white robes had killed her husband...
...other 13, had been reading 40 to 50 comic books a week, and apparently what they read they took to heart. One evening last month, they acted like characters in their comic strips. Result: last week, in Dawson Creek, B.C., they stood trial in juvenile court for robbery and murder...
...with his beautiful young wife (Linda Darnell), but he begins to suspect her, unjustly, of carrying on with his handsome young secretary (Kurt Kreuger). Brooding over his jealousy as he conducts a concert (Rossini, Wagner, Tchaikovsky), he imagines himself solving his domestic triangle in three different ways: 1) by murder, 2) by generosity to the young "lovers," and 3) by suicide...
When he actually tries out the murder plot he has imagined so smoothly, he bungles it hilariously. Having spent too long arriving at his gag, Sturges cannot resist overworking it. Harrison is so funny stepping through a cane-bottomed chair that he is allowed to do the whole routine a second time...