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With variations, this story is at least as old as a press report of 1618. Under the title, "News from Perin [Penrhyn], in Cornwall, of a most Bloody and unexampled Murther," the 17th-Century British reporter told how a father and step-mother killed and robbed their rich overnight guest, then discovered that the dead man was their long absent...
Strong recommendations that the new undergraduate library have a Mt. Auburn Street location grew out of a conference Saturday evening between Murther E. Saise, chief of the West Cambridge City Planning Department, and a select group of students at McBride Hall...
...proclamation published on August 13, 1660, which condemns two of Milton's political pamphlets as containing 'treasonable passages" and "impious endeavors to justifle the horrid and unmatchable murther" of King Charles I, may also be seen...
...hardest-fought pigskin combats in which Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng but beastely fury and extreme violence." But the only casualty in the scores of games played in France and in the Rhine country by the twice-heroes of the American Expeditionary Forces was a broken...