Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voluntary informants, writes as much of murders that were never solved as of those that were. The work of running down false clues was as important and tedious as the more showy labor of capture and arrest. When the body of Minnie Bonati was discovered, in the Charing Cross Trunk Murder Case, days were wasted tracing the movements of an innocent man who happened to have bought a trunk strap on the day of the murder...
...delivered the latest blow. He has equalled if not outdone himself and his rival in inventing novel and repellent forms of rape and violent death. In the title story one of the characters amuses himself by cutting off dogs' tails, of which he keeps a large collection in a trunk. As a fitting accompaniment to these actions, most of the people in the book display the usual pathological symptoms: they drool, twitch, giggle, and gibber in the most authentic manner...
...told him I didn't know and he came over toward me and grabbed me and put his hand over my mouth and pulled me into the tan sedan." After that George remembered riding a long time, sometimes in the tan sedan, sometimes in the trunk of a "big, grey Buick." One night he and his captors slept by a river. George asked if they were going to drown him. Another night they slept in a stand of timberland. "That made me think, well, I believe it belongs to my father." His last three nights in captivity were spent...
...Fresh as the Breath of Spring," showing the same girl perched on a trunk. ("Always fair weather aboard these trains...
...Francisco last week, reporters found famed Helen Wills Moody on a station platform with a trunk full of tennis rackets, bound for Wimbledon where the All-England championships start June 24. Retired since her default to her ablest rival, Helen Jacobs, in the National Championships at Forest Hills in 1933, she explained that she had been practicing this spring, gradually convinced herself that her game was as good as ever. Said she, about her trip to Wimbledon: "I just made up my mind to go this afternoon...