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... better. There is, for example, a hundred degrees more interest in Mr. Edmund Pearson's absorb ing story of The T rial of Lizzie Borden (Heine- mann ios. 6d.) than in the whole library of crime fiction lumped to gether. For the tale of what he calls America's ...
... from the year 1876, and which is heavier a pound of feathers or a pound of gold. And the haunting jingle of such lines as Lizzie Borden with an axe Hit her father forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She hit her mother forty-one. And all about the ...
... about it. Lizzie Borden. Among the famous trials for murder which people remember forgetting the majority, happily the case of the Borden murders still stands out. Mrs. Belloc Lowndes has reconstructed it in the form of a story Lizzie Borden (Hutchin son ...
... scenario writers might do worse than look up some of the world's famous trials. They might begin with the Borden case. Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one. This stirring ...
... an unexplained crime and don't want to know Who Done It. That is why certain murder cases, like the Wallace Case, the Lizzie Borden Case, and the Madeleine Smith Case, possess an unending fascination for all lovers of crime mysteries. In her comparative ...
... the ligneous grace Of your intensely wooden face. There is a third tree-poem we like as well tort, and rather sinister Lizzie Borden with an axe Hit her father forty whacks Frittering her gift away, Bryant commented to May. The current match-shortage ...
... doubt. More probably they fell for dainty, helpless, wistful little rogues of the type of Lizzie Borden, whose fumbling technique is famous in song Lizzie Borden took an axe And hit her parents forty whacks In Scythia such .pathetic sweethearts would naturally ...
... Paul I.ynde, as Harry the Heel in an excruciatingly- funny skit on Death of a Salesman, and Miss Virginia de Luce as Lizzie Borden, the patricidal miss who is gently admonished, You can't chop your Poppa up in Massachusetts. The Sea Shall Not Have Them ...
... Standing By PAGING MR. TWINKLETOES D. B. Wyndham Lewis LIZZIE BORDEN took (as you doubtless recall) an axe and hit her poppa forty whacks; when she saw what she had done she hit her momma forty one. A ballet called Fall River Legend, based on this historic ...
... 'thirties Mr. Edward Percy and Mr. Reginald Denham, old hands at the game, based a successful thriller on the cause célébre of Lizzie Borden. This young lady, according to the ruthless rhyme, took an axe, gave her father forty whacks, and when she saw what she ...
... could not have made perfectly digestible. Now follows Fall River Legend, an ail-American idyll based c the history of Lizzie Borden, who, you may remember, took axe to her parents when they displeased her. This is one of tho fey little numbers enacted ...