Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carbary was elected State's Attorney of Kane County, Ill., on a reform platform. He pledged himself to dry up the county in general and the city of Aurora (to Chicago: 40 miles) in particular. Last week his enforcement promise produced: one dead woman, one man with a fractured skull, one deputy sheriff with a bullet in his leg, popular resentment so strong that the State of Illinois had to step in and take over the consequences of his official zeal...
...autopsy performed on his wife a few hours after her death last week. Dr. Frederic Flinn, Columbia University radium poisoning specialist, was summoned by telegraph and he, with a Waterbury pathologist and dentist, took the body apart. They found that its jawbones were decayed, also parts of the skull, a bone in the right thigh, and four teeth. The heart and lungs were sound, but other internal organs yellow with...
Died. Col. John Reginald McLean of Phoenix, Ariz., mining engineer; of skull fracture, after an automobile accident; near Montecito, Calif. The accident occurred during the Colonel's honeymoon, one week after his marriage to Kathleen Burke Peabody, famed Wartime nurse, widow of the late Collar Tycoon Frederick Forrest Peabody (Cluett. Peabody...
Besides its thrills "The Skull" has very little indeed to offer. The authors are frank enough to make no pretense at plot, and the advertisements for the play stress the chills and laughs, not the tenseness of plot situation. If sudden shrieks, queer lights, clutching hands, ghost voices and such phenomena thrill you, there is little doubt that "The Skull" will prove very satisfactory fare. But if you demand more of a mystery play, if you ask a cleverly worked plot you will find the play lacking...
Inasmuch as the trend in mystery plays has been from baffling plot down to a presentation of grotesque effects and nothing more, the authors of "The Skull" cannot be too severely taken to task. Most good plots have been exhausted by now, but there is still the possibility of giving the public a good scare about once an act. We don't guarantee the goodness of these scares, but no effort is spared in an endeavor to put great numbers of them across...