Word: killer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open windows. Day later, 2,000 reinforcements with machine guns, armored cars and field kitchens deployed in the market place and began-a house-to-house search for the culprit. A reward of 100,000 Czech crowns ($3,330) was offered for information leading to arrest of the killer. One thousand Czechs were arrested; an unnamed nurse, whom Czechs called a "great patriot," was questioned. The Czech mayor of Kladno was supplanted by a German commissar and, to cap it all, the Nazis levied a fine of 500,000 crowns ($16,650) on the district. Most of the money, they...
Meanwhile, Nazis held a memorial service in Kladno for Sergeant Kniest, before giving him a martyr's funeral this week in Leipzig, his home city. Adolf Hitler sent a wreath. Kladno was first given 24 hours, later 48, to produce the killer or else suffer "further measures." The Czech Unity Party, only Czech political organization still existent in Bohemia and Moravia, declared such "acts of force are a crime against the entire Czech people," called upon Czechs to cooperate in apprehending the slayer. The Czechs wanted it understood that murder was not in their plans. While Kladno wondered what...
...much enriched by the Lyric Theatre last week, the reputation of Composer Copland was. His music for the "character-ballet" Billy the Kid, much of it based on cowboy songs, was close-knit, percussive, incisive, wasting not a grace note in its evocation of the dapper, New York-born killer who flourished in the Southwest in the '703 and '80s. The choreography of Eugene Loring and the dancing of the Ballet Caravan were no less exciting...
...CASE OF THE CRUMPLED KNAVE-Anthony Boucher-Simon & Schuster ($2). Young Fergus O'Breen, with the aid of Colonel Theodore Rand, U. S. A. (Ret.), nails the crafty killer of a wealthy California chemist-inventor...
...having smoothed his style somewhat since last hearing, still plays very stiffly himself and his rhythm section sounds as if it were descended from the proud line of Pinocchio. On slow tunes, things were much better, the band displaying an indifferent Goodman style sweet. However, on the so-called "killer-diller" stuff, not even the rankest jitterbug could find much satisfaction with Mr. James playing such tricks as using the beginning of "Bach Goes To Town" and most of the famous Berigan chorus from the Benny Goodman record on "King Porter Stomp" . . . Rumor's flying around that Stan Brown...