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Word: shonbrun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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...hold-up murder of 52-year-old Susan Flora Reich in Manhattan, self-dramatizing Madeline Webb went to prison for life, self-dramatizing Eli Shonbrun, impassive John Cullen went to Sing Sing to await death in the chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Thistles | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Little Guy's Lady The world never appreciated Eli Shonbrun. He was a little guy with plenty of talent, he figured, but the world never gave him a decent break. That was the way he saw it. Just after he was married, his job folded up on him. He went to his greasy Uncle Murray Hirschl, who was a schlemiel with a dirty reputation in the jewelry business. Big-hearted Uncle Murray took him into "partnership." The pay: $10 a week. With all Eli's talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Guy's Lady | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Said the old Judge, summing up: "Cleopatra had her Mark Antony. . . . King Edward said: 'I abdicate my throne at long last that I may marry the woman I love.' . . . My helpless client found her Shonbrun. . . . Will you lead her to the dark doors of the dungeon or will you lead her to the green pastures and by the still waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Guy's Lady | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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