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Word: weapon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the inveterate moviegoer must resign himself to stereotyped plots, he always has a sneaking hope that some performance will be worth the price of admission. Unfortunately, the musical voice of Kay Francis is too small a weapon to struggle against the tawdry and tune worn story if "Mandalay" which is playing at the University...

Author: By A.a.b. Jr., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...morning last week Turnkey Sam Cahoon was distributing soap to the prisoners taking morning exercise. Suddenly, Dillinger's stick of wood, whittled into the shape of a pistol and blacked with shoe polish, poked into Turnkey Cahoon's back. Cowed by the wooden weapon, he yielded up the jail's keys, was forced to call the deputy sheriff, who called the warden. Within 15 minutes Dillinger had 33 trusties, prisoners, jailers, wardens and special guards locked securely in the cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Whittler's Holiday | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...that all constitutional guarantees have been suspended as a result of a general strike. There is very little evidence that Mendieta has or ever had the confidence of the country. He owes his accession to power solely to the discriminatory use which the American government has made of the weapon of recognition in order to discredit his predecessors and force their overthrow. The plain fact of the matter is that Cuba just barely tolerates a conservative government, for the country has become radical at heart due to the desperate economic plight of recent years. The situation since the occasion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/9/1934 | See Source »

...still younger brother. When the last male representative of the line marries a nurse, Victoria determines to break up the marriage and force him into espousal of a girl of his own class. She fails, but magnificently. The "double door," concealing a secret sound proof chamber, is first her weapon and last her undoing, but always the force shaping her destiny and her family...

Author: By T. B. Oc., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/16/1934 | See Source »

Poison is the weapon; the motive, gain. The author first shows the victim's death, then the murderer's modus operandi. Inspector French is brought forward on the trail. In the ensuing hunt the reader feels himself the quarry. Explanation of detection follows, with Inspector French being raised in rank once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

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