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Word: murderers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warrant charging William F, de Ross, 36, with murder, was obtained by police yesterday in connection with the slaying last night of Harry P. Shea, 74 year-old retired head of a dry cleaning shops chain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News in Brief | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

...Evidently you folks are not satisfied with the countless crimes that have been laid at my door; but you are now egging me on to commit the most serious of all crimes-murder-of the English language. That is one charge to which I would have no defense-so my barrister advises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Lawyer Knows Best | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Window. A boy's-eye view of murder in a Manhattan tenement, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...come to mean a low-budget picture with a future. He gives this movie some unexpected authenticity because he is capable of crossing black & white traits in a role without showing his hand. The standard rackets-film types include Thomas Gomez as a mobster who operates a sort of Murder, Inc. for Stalin, and Janis Carter as a party moll with a lazily upper-class voice and a glassy manner. The movie's one original character is a popeyed, free-lance killer (William Talman) with a jitterbug personality. Best scene: the free lance collecting his pay with the boyish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Before the Grail is restored to its keeper, the Prester John of early Christian lore, the reader sees murder done and a black mass sung, right in broad British daylight. In short, he enters the other world of Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8 et seq.), the English religious mystic who toward the end of his life (1945) set on paper a series of modern visions which he called novels (All Hallows' Eve, Descent into Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of the Grail | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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