Word: slain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger wept for her two small children. French policemen assured her that they were all right, playing safely on the warm sands of Nice with their nurse. French friends testified that the slain man was "insanely jealous," recalled that he once insured Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger 's dimples for $100,000. Preparations were made to bury him in Philadelphia...
...when the News printed more than four pages of story and pictures concerning the dead woman, her daughter might have read: "A gigantic love racket which netted the slain Vivian Gordon half a million dollars in three years. . . . She had her own private call list . . . of 40 to 50 lovely girls. In her 'catalogue' were photographs taken in the nude of the various girl-wares Vivian had to offer...
Publisher Albert J. Kobler's Mirror gave less space but equal "juice" to the story. One of its big headlines read: SLAIN GIRL VICE WITNESS IS LINKED WITH SHOOTING OF "JACK" DIAMOND...
...short day's work for Col. Cerro's troops to scatter them with machine gun fire, chase them eight miles down to the Port of Callao (where T. R. H. were saluted fortnight ago) and end the No. 1 revolution there, after some 60 persons had been slain (one of them Reginald A. Skidmore of the Grace Line, killed by a stray bullet while playing billiards at the Strangers' Club...
...series of recent murders once experienced disaster at sea. Unfortunately, the good doctor neglects to include the real killer among his suspects. As a result, while the party is witnessing the re-enacting of the crime and being subjected to various guilt-detecting machines, quite a few people are slain. The play includes, of course, one lunatic, one scary maid, two lovers. Doctor X is not a first-rate mystery drama, but it frightens at times...