Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Times rashly accused Irish Patriot Charles Stewart Parnell of condoning murder by Irish terrorists, and as evidence printed a letter supposedly written by Parnell. The government inquiry that proved the letter a forgery cost the paper ?200,000, wrecked its reputation and left it without capital to repel the privateers of the penny press...
...pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) of being a backstage Cassio. He also experiences some sickening sideslips into full loss of identity. The company becomes more & more nervous about the frightening sincerity with which he plays his strangling scene with Desdemona. Will he finally go completely bats and commit murder...
...Woman's Vengeance. Jessica Tandy and Charles Boyer in Aldous Huxley's story of jealousy and murder (TIME...
Suppose that, after the death of Caesar, some industrious private investigator assembled all the relevant documents on the murder-intercepted letters from Caesar's better-known enemies, the report (to Cleopatra) of a secret operative of the Egyptian government, a discussion with Caesar's physician, confidential messages from his wife's maid, and, above all, Caesar's private papers. Suppose, further, that these documents were arranged like the evidence in a murder trial to show who was guilty and why. How would the result compare with the accounts given by Shakespeare and Suetonius...
...murder trial possesses some of the elements of a sporting event," wrote the late Damon Runyon. "I am not one of those who criticize the curiosity of the gals who storm the doors of the court room. . . . If I had not seen them, I know I would have been consumed with curiosity to peer at Mrs. Snyder and Judd Gray. . . . It is only a slight variation of the same curiosity that makes me eager to see . . . a great baseball player...