Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amused at your footnote on Mrs. Agnes Denmanson of Seattle who in 1933 was quoted as saying "Anyone who drinks beer would commit murder...
...Denmanson correspondence to the Star followed, and brought in hundreds of letters from irate beer drinkers . . . The general pattern had the mythical subscriber writing she had seen a man enter a bar and stagger out after one beer. Each letter ended "Anyone who drinks beer would commit murder. Mr. Denmanson agrees with...
...first won the favorable attention of the Korean public in 1899, when he strangled a Japanese captain. Beside the captain's body Kim left a note setting forth his name, address and the reason for the murder. (The captain had engineered the murder of a Korean queen.) The authorities threw Kim into jail, but in 1901 he escaped, disguised as a Buddhist priest. In 1917 Kim decided that periodic prison stretches were interfering with his efficiency as an assassin, transferred his base of operations to Shanghai. There he organized a bombing which killed a Japanese general, mutilated a Japanese...
...nobody. He habitually put the pinch on, or otherwise harassed, such hearties as Murray ("The Camel") Humphries, the late Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti, Louis ("Little New York") Campagna, Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca, Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, Big Al's biggest brother. Once he even tried to pin a murder rap on fish-eyed, elegantly tailored Charlie ("The Gentleman") Fischetti, one of Al Capone's top three heirs. And he hauled in Jack ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, Al Capone's business brains, whenever he felt displeased with the look on Greasy Thumb's fat face-which was often...
...emotional disintegration of an old man; in The Disciple he tells a weird story of a meeting on Easter Eve between two quiet chess addicts who turn out to be Ahasver, the "eternal Jew," and a reincarnated Judas; and in Bow Down, Isaac! he brings to the climax of murder a story of religious fanaticism and family hatred in New England...