Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police who soon congregated in the pedestrian tunnel were profoundly impressed, agitated, angry. For this corpse had not been a gangster, or a policeman, or a mere citizen. He was a Newspaper Reporter - Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the loud and powerful Chicago Tribune's seasoned expert on Chicago crime, a man acquainted with under-worldlings from the meanest racetrack tipster to Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone himself, whom he visited for the Tribune winter before last at the Capone estate in Miami Beach, Fla. From the Tribune's tower on upper Michigan Avenue soon issued a grim proclamation: "The Tribune accepts...
...Potts, 19, a promising, first-year man, holder of an ?80 scholarship, leader of a Cambridge dance orchestra. As tutor and pupil entered, they were faced by Detective Sergeant Willis of the Cambridge Police, standing with his large feet well spaced on the hearthrug, as in all proper British crime dramas...
Vulgar Eugenio Bassani was the first Italian sentenced under the Lateran Treaty, which makes it as much a crime to speak ill of Il Papa as of Il Duce or Il Re. In practice one may speak ill of the Pope or the King with virtual impunity throughout Italy so long as one employs suave and gentlemanly terms. But even to utter the word "Mussolini" aloud in a public place causes consternation. Members of the English-speaking colony at Rome take no chances that an Italian might misunderstand them to be speaking ill of Il Duce. Shrewd, they generally refer...
...HEAVEN SENT WITNESS (Doubleday, Doran) is a collection of the best stories of crime and mystery by J. S. Fletcher, one of the most popular. English detective story writers. The volume contains twenty-one thrilling tales, each one a miniature novel packed with swift action and suspense. In the title story a man in the vestibule of a through express looks casually at his watch, and from that slender clue the police, build up a case which hangs a murderer. Another of the stories, "The Button and the Bank Note", explains how Detective Sergeant Hubbertson solved a murder which...
...large share of the translation work this year was assigned in Joliet's "Precis Illustre de la Litterature Francaise", a book, which, in addition to having the monotonous, inventory-like dullness of so many literary histories, affords mediocre training in vocabulary. The chief academic crime which the French Department committed was to require a knowledge of the subject matter of much of this book...