Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...going to kill a man." While the young man babbled about doing something to the husband of his cutie, Mr. Anthony passed a note to his announcer suggesting that the client's coat be searched. In it was found a foot-long jack handle-"a fine instrument for murder," as Mr. Anthony now points out. From this distraught juvenile, Mr. Anthony won a promise not to do anything until the next day. By that time Mr. Anthony had a psychiatrist ready, who subsequently worked a cure...
...Letter (Warner) is almost actionless. It opens with a murder, somewhat later shows a creepy sequence among hidden hallways in the Chinese quarter of Singapore. Otherwise the plot is unwound with conversation rather than movement - usually fatal for cinema. Furthermore, it is a rather conventional mystery story, the tale of a sly and devious wife (Bette Davis) of a British rubber planter (Herbert Marshall) who murders her lover when he appears to be losing interest. There is a trial, an acquittal, a day of reckoning. Moving, as it does, at a laggardly pace, it should, according to all the rules...
...husband, now with the wife, shows it as the intense embodiment of captive freedom, of the artist's urge, of love. By the time the day is over, the mutual crucifixion of the Irish marriage is thoroughly clear; the Irishman has made two abject, ambiguous attempts at murder; and Glenway Wescott has wrung a little more than the last drop of slantwise symbolism from the actions and the lore of the bird...
...this Dr. Berg made candid answer: "The surgeon can only be accused of accessory murder. The premeditated murder lies at the doorstep of those internists who permit their patients to get into such a deplorable state in which only the 'Hand of the Almighty' could save them. Would Dr. Andresen let them all die? . . . I am sorry that my remarks offended [him] . . . I simply asked for a closer cooperation...
Birmingham was part cornfield, part foul-smelling swamp. In the '70s some damyankee speculators swooped down, began exploiting the rich, freak coal, iron and limestone deposits. Called "The Magic City," Birmingham spent its youth in filth, poverty, lawlessness. At one time it was called The Murder Capital of the World. When control of T. C. I. switched to U. S. Steel in 1907, Birmingham began to grow up. Slowly, painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city, T. C. I. spent $29,000,000 on expansion in 1936, has spent more millions since. Today...