Word: stockyard
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...vary its own fare, the World hired one Maurine Watkins, author of a play about murder-lust in Chicago's stockyard district, to write a delectable tidbit pretending to scorn Mrs. Browning because she had gone to court instead of killing Mr. Browning. The World's introduction : "... To become famous in Chicago the woman kills and kills and kills. Miss Watkins, investigating scientifically the road to fame in our own fair city, gives her conclusions below." Some conclusions : "In Chicago, you must shoot, not sue, your way to glory. Her front pages drip with blood, whereas New York...