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Word: murdering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reaction slightly less violent than that of a Mrs. Agnes Denmandson of Seattle who protested the legalization of 3.2 beer in 1933 by proclaiming: "Anyone who will drink beer will commit murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Deadlier Than Bullets | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...Witness (Eagle Lion Classics) sends a brassy U.S. defense lawyer to England on a tough murder case, and then watches him stumble through a baffling maze of provincial customs and courtroom procedure. The plot is predictable, but Producer Joan Harrison and Director-Star Robert Montgomery wring some wry chuckles from their bull-in-the-china-shop situation, and keep the story moving at a lively clip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 25, 1950 | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...back on TV with a 30-minute version of Huckleberry Finn. Its young-in-heart viewers are promised such future attractions as The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Stevenson's Kidnapped and a production based on Hamlet in which a child, playing a private detective, will solve the murder of Hamlet's father. The only taboos on the show are still the words "Mom and "kiddies." Says Tripp: "They just stick in my throat." About all that wil] be added are a sponsor (Nestle's Chocolate) and a few more realistic props in the hope that they might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Washtub Armada | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...fearing Mississippi farmer is seized by temptation and driven to murder; a taut little novel of crime & passion (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

Happily cast as a ghoulish small-town scamp, Wayne accidentally kills his unpopular Uncle Joe on a family picnic and, fearing a murder charge, talks the family into burying him secretly near by. When he learns that the dead man carried a $10,000 life insurance policy (double indemnity for accidents), he hopefully begins identifying a random lot of corpses as Uncle Joe. Twice balked by insurance investigators, once in the midst of a mock-solemn funeral service full of twittering canaries, Wayne finally decides to dig up Uncle Joe and put him where he can do some good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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