Word: patly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neatly beheaded, arms and legs deftly removed, the grisly remains of seven men and six women suggested the work of a fiend acquainted with the meat-chopping profession. As one killing after another came to light periodically, Cleveland's harried sheriff hired a private detective named Lawrence J. ("Pat") Lyons to work on the case...
Last spring Pat Lyons found something. Having looked for but failed to discover a refrigerated slaughter chamber where the Butcher might have worked, he made friends with a circle of human scum in which two of the identified victims had moved: Mrs. Florence Polillo (No. 4), a prostitute, and Edward W. Andrassy (No. 2), a pervert. From their friends Pat Lyons learned that one Frank Dolezal knew them both, that he was with the Polillo woman the night police believed she was killed. Frank Dolezal drank a good deal, was fond of knives. Block-jawed, muscular, he used...
...rooms formerly occupied by Dolezal, Pat Lyons found crumbs of human blood between the floor boards, behind the bathtub. Arrested, Dolezal withstood 40 hours of questioning before he blurted...
...argues that it is not the business of the U. S. to act as judge of international morals-let the U. S. keep out of war by having nothing to do with any nation that gets involved in war; 3) the school of the "historic" neutrals, believes in standing pat on the pre-914 international law which gives a neutral nation certain "rights" in the matter of trading with belligerents...
What some old-line Texas Democrats questioned, however, was the precise color of Mr. Howe's political complexion. His father was a stand-pat Republican. His Atchison Globe is still Republican. Moreover, Texas folk are still quoting a public address Gene Howe made two years ago when, kidding on the square, he said that before moving to Texas, he and his late partner, Wilbur C. Hawk, nipped a coin to determine which would be Democrat, which Republican. Until his death in 1936 Hawk supported Alf Landon. But if Gene Howe never gets to Congress, he probably...