Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the judges announced the winners: a squirming pen-and-ink satire on Picassomania, by Adolf Dehn; a crowd of bereaved workers' wives, by Georges Schreiber; a suicide, by Anton Refregier; a murder, by Fred Ellis; a death in the Dustbowl, by Bernard Steffen. Popular choice: a train wreck by Lionel S. Reiss...
Sportswriters liked little Joe Jacobs. He was generous, gregarious, made good copy. They liked the taunts he put into beer-bibbing Tony Galento's mouth: "I'll murder dat bum" (Joe Louis). They echoed his casual remarks until they became part of Broadway's vernacular: "We wuz robbed" (when Schmeling lost to Sharkey in their second fight for the heavyweight title); "I shoulda stood in bed" (when he found himself among the shivering spectators at a World Series game one frosty day in Detroit...
Reigning London playwright, who has put even Noel Coward's eye out, is 34-year-old Welshman Emlyn Williams, known in the U. S. chiefly for his murder play, Night Must Fall. Son of a Welsh miner, Williams did not speak English till he was eight, did not see a professional show till he was 19. Playing in London are his autobiographical The Corn Is Green, packing them in after 600 performances, and The Light of Heart, story of a drunken, down-at-heel actor who gets his last chance to stage a comeback in a myth ical Charles...
...There is today a new home of crime in America," wrote Chief G-Man J. Edgar Hoover in February's American Magazine, "a new home of disease, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, thievery and murder. Hence the terse order that goes out daily to law-enforcement agencies when criminals are on the loose: 'KEEP CLOSE WATCH ON TOURIST CAMPS...
According to Ely Culbertson, more words were printed about the Culbertson-Lenz bridge battle in 1931 than about Lindbergh's flight to Paris or any murder except the Hall-Mills case; and his Contract Bridge Blue Book and its Summary (written by Mrs. Culbertson) are, next to the Bible, the all-time non-fiction bestsellers (1,300,000 copies). Thanks to an incredible talent for cards and for self-publicizing, Ely Culbertson became the most curiously famous...