Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missouri, Republicans hoped that the Binaggio murder would help out Forrest Donnell, who was opposed by Truman-blessed Emery Allison. But Republicans were uneasy about the safety of Indiana's Capehart and Wisconsin's Wiley, frankly worried about Iowa's Hickenlooper and Colorado's Eugene Millikin...
Jack ("The Dandy") Parisi is a toadlike little man with amazingly large bags under his eyes and an unswerving penchant for flashy clothes. During the big years of New York's Murder, Inc., he made his living by shooting people. But though he finished off a lot of them, most of the details of his life remain obscure. Jack is not a talkative man. "If you hung him up by the thumbs for eight weeks," said a Bronx prosecutor, "he might tell you his first name...
...Forgetful. He was taken back to Brooklyn, put on trial for the murder of an A.F.L. official named Morris Diamond. Ex-gangster Allie ("Tick Tick") Tannenbaum told the jury all about the crime. But another hood named Angelo Catalano-who had earlier admitted driving Parisi's getaway car-last week took the stand and said blandly, "That ain't the guy." A corroborating witness who had seen the murder just couldn't identify the killer either. Since a man may not be convicted of murder in New York solely on the testimony of accomplices, the judge helplessly...
With The Ptomaine Canary scheduled to appear in papers as far apart as Amsterdam and Tokyo, Writer Traubel was dickering with Simon & Schuster for publishing rights to a second mystery, to be called (when written) Murder at the Met. Who was going to be done in this time, the author declined...
...magnificent. Here is a 1950 artist who does not incite me to murder...