Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the Crime will wend his weary way to University Hall at ten to sit nervously enthralled while Dean Fraud delivers...
Second Charlie Ross kidnapping was chiefly significant as an interesting coincidence until its solution made it a major crime in its own right. This was when, at Santa Anita race track last January, Federal agents arrested a 27-year-oldex-lumber-jack named John Henry Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, whose pockets were stuffed with $14,000 in ransom bills. The lumberjack confessed kidnapping Mr. Ross, corroborated his confession by guiding his captors to a cave in the Wisconsin woods northwest of Spooner where were found the frozen corpses of Ross and one James Atwood Gray. Lumberjack Seadlund jauntily explained that...
...DEAD DON'T CARE-Jonathan Latimer-Crime Club ($2). Two private investigators who like to drink double triple Scotches manage between drinks to solve a kidnapping, a shooting and a poisoning on a Florida estate. In spots very funny; very, very tough throughout. Readers with weak stomachs had better not apply. A condensed version appeared serially in Collier's under the title A Queen's Ransom...
...people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely where it had left off. Scholarly by temperament, a sagacious commentator on Latin poets, Greek dramatists, French fiction, he combines these academic pursuits with a love of the theatre, writes comedies (The Crime in the Whistler Room, This Room, This Gin and These Sandwiches] in which characters akin to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald are shown wound up with less outspoken intellectuals. In his desire to see the U. S. at firsthand Critic Wilson once bought a motorcycle, gave it up after...
...activities on the Cornell campus. It is discouraging that a legislature which has just enacted a constructive program of social reform should have taken so seriously the emotional fulminations of Senator McNaboe, that it passed a bill which would bar from teaching posts some idealistic parlor pinks whose sole crime is the possession of a confused and incoherent social consciousness...