Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their age and education, talk in a language which is a combination of Gertrude Stein at her clearest and a book of Victorian etiquette at its most pompous ("Will you rise with your unconscious grace and ring the bell?" they say). They talk thus even when they are planning murder, fraud and forgery, or saying aloud the thoughts that living people are most careful not to say. They do their grim talking in dining rooms and nurseries which the author hardly ever describes, but which Critic Edward Sack-ville-West has neatly termed "embowered, rook-enchanted concentration camps." The persevering...
...Fuller men have delivered babies, rushed stricken customers to hospitals; one saved a child from strangulation by slapping its bottom until the coin she had swallowed was coughed up. Unlike the Fuller Brush man hero in the current Red Skelton film, no Fuller dealer has ever been suspected of murder, and despite legend, his erotic adventures...
...death penalty for murder was abolished for a trial period of five years in: 1. Great Britain. 2. France. 3. The Netherlands. 4. Sweden. 5. Russia...
Shortly before his murder, Polk applied for a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Last week Harvard announced that his selection as a fellow would be entered on its records, and expressed pride "in having a candidate of his high qualities and journalistic distinction...
This new one-volume history of the American Revolution is as coldly dispassionate about a passionate subject as an indictment for murder. It is doubtful whether any other study of the revolution is at once so compact and so inclusive, or succeeds so well in avoiding the myths of the professional flag-wavers or the narrow materialism of the muckrakers...