Word: killing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last fortnight Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson was reading an early edition of her Washington Times-Herald. She called her office. Said Cissie: "Martha Blair bores me - kill the column." So pressmen ripped open the forms, jerked out These Charming People by Martha Blair, a column about Washington's social stratosphere...
...industrial beauty of the railroad yards, which are regimented, grimy and shabby, but also vast and mysterious. In the morning the yards are seen bustling, in the rain forlorn, at night ominous. There is a gnawing dread that, like the human characters, the rushing trains will destroy each other, kill some one. But in the end it is the humans who kill and are killed...
...people are demanding one." Having narrowly escaped another discreditable lynching, Maryland quickly charged Collick and Selby with murder, Manuel with shooting with intent to kill...
...Lamps of tomorrow will mood-condition our homes, paint pleasing and ever-changing pictures or designs on our walls. kill bacteria, and so guard us against disease, provide us with health-giving radiation and sun tan while we sleep. . . . Heating lamps may warm our homes in cold weather." So prophesied Lamp Engineer Samuel Galloway Hibben of Westinghouse Lamp...
...York. To Clare Boothe the Mayor's little joke was a God-send. Around the consul she built an extenuated murder mystery which at one time was ready to involve all the non-Aryans in Hitland. She gave him six fellow characters all with good reason to kill him. Miss Boothe called it "Margin For Error," and after a long run in New York, almost as much a mystery as the plot, it reopened last night at the Plymouth...