Word: killer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devil help the criminal who injures a policeman or his family. Outside Albany last week Edward ("Fats") McCarthy, "cop killer." was shot in the head and killed by avenging detectives, who were praised, promised promotion for their deed...
...expect his Yale boat to go on undefeated from New London last week to the Olympic trials at Worcester, Mass. In calm water, after a windy day in which Harvard's junior varsity and Yale's freshmen had won their races, Harvard got away first with Gerard ("Killer") Cassedy, son of a onetime Cambridge plumber, setting a long slow beat that his men picked up smoothly behind him. At the half mile, Yale, at Stroke John H. ("Tiger") Jackson's faster beat, had caught up and got a deck's length lead. What happened then made...
...Karen Morley) and at once reforms, returns to the Secret Service. Karen Morley, a woman of action, becomes engaged to Warner Baxter. Conway Tearle is vexed. There is much keen, clipped talk, people being candidly selfish, sinister, caddish with pleased expressions. Back in the Secret Service, Baxter captures a killer-counterfeiter to get his hand in, then investigates his fiancee's murder of an international spy, her brother-in-law. He tries to save her from the consequences by recovering the gun from an umbrella stand at midnight. He gets shot, almost dies. His faithful butler reels, almost faints...
...jungles near Singapore three man-eating tigers staged a man-eating contest. Winner was one known as the Killer of Kuali, with 35 deaths. Mr. Buck wanted one of his victims used to bait a trap, but that was against the law. "To hell with that law!" said Buck, and whispered his secret to a Tamil shooter. A few days later the Tamil posed a dead Malay as bait, shot the killer...
Nervousness and hurry, factors that every killer must cope with, are responsible for absurd mistakes. Dr. Magrath told of a man who in attempting to make the shot-gun murder of his wife appear a suicide, fastened a string to the trigger guard of the weapon instead of to the trigger itself...