 | 1925 - 566 pàgines
...mystery of the murder has never been solved, although according to the doggerel verse many believed her guilty. "Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her Mother...she had done, — She gave her father forty-one!" The second study is of the Twenty-third Street Murder; that of Benjamin Nathan in 1870. No trial was... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Barnicle - 1927 - 380 pàgines
...Chaucer's gentle Prioress in weeping if he had seen a mouse caught in a trap), just as the little ditty, " Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty...what she had done, She gave her father forty-one," titillated the imaginations of so many inoffensive law-abiding citizens of our own generation. Perhaps... | |
 | Michael Kurland, Richard A. Lupoff - 1999 - 406 pàgines
...carefully. Then cover it with a piece of paper and answer the questions that follow. Lizzie Borden Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty...what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Refresh Your Memory Over the past century, Lizzie has been the subject of innumerable magazine articles... | |
 | David Foxton - 2000 - 164 pàgines
...stage left.) Lizzie (As she goes): Leave me alone, all of you!! Hortense (Says or sings, wistfully): Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty...saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one. Barbara (To Georgina): What you got there? Georgina: Lizzie Borden dropped it. Ann: What is it? Eliza:... | |
 | Mark Olshaker, John E. Douglas - 2001 - 353 pàgines
...man known to the police as David Cohen ... or someone very much like him. CHAPTER TWO LIZZIE BORDEN Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty...saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one. This is the way the most famous and notorious American murder case of the nineteenth century has chiefly... | |
 | William Roughead - 2000 - 580 pàgines
...is embalmed in a quatrain which was a favorite of President Roosevelt: — Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her Mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done, She gave her Father forty-one! The admirable brevity of the bard is beyond praise; volumes might have contained less matter. Would... | |
 | Stephen B. Goddard - 2000 - 268 pàgines
...schoolchildren took up the popular chant: Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks And when she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one. Pope's busy publicity department funneled into the boss's office magazine and newspaper writers eager... | |
 | Katherine Ramsland - 2001 - 260 pàgines
...attempts to solve this double murder — even after she was dead and buried. Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty- one That was the rhyme the children sang, but it's not quite right. Altogether there were only... | |
 | Richard J. Wolfe - 2001 - 808 pàgines
...the Lizzie Borden murder case — "Lizzie Borden took an ax, and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one" — which was held in nearby Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892, and by the Sacco and Vanzetti murder... | |
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Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her Mother forty whacks ; When she saw what she had done, She gave her Father forty-one ! The admirable brevity of the bard is beyond praise ; volumes might have contained less matter. 
