Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interpreted by Actor Levene, the leading role of Room Service is a brutal assault on most spectators' funny bones. There is the time, for instance, when he and his director (Philip Loeb) have gone 18 hours without food, the White Way having discontinued room service. Actor Loeb, a master of comic finality, declares that he is seeing spots. "No," he corrects himself, ''it's hamburgers...
...Manhattan last week, the police case against Father Divine, who with two followers is charged with the assault of a New Jersey contractor named Harry Green (TIME. May 3), was stalled because Green had not yet recovered from the wounds he received in ''God's Kingdom No. 1." -In 1916 an optometrist of Youngstown, Ohio named Dr. Harman G. Huffman fasted 59 days to cure his heart trouble, died of starvation. In 1920 Mayor Terence MacSwiney of Cork lasted 74 days before dying of starvation as a political gesture...
Father Divine disappeared before police could lay hands upon him. An alarm went out for his arrest, for felonious assault and "acting in concert" with three other Negroes whom police charged with stab bing Greene. For the podgy little Messiah who claims 30,000,000 followers (and has about 50,000), there then followed other misfortunes. First of these was the apostasy of his fat, capable right hand, "Faithful Mary" (Viola Wilson...
...nearly three days after the assault in Harlem, police hunted for Father Divine...
...curse shall fall on their heads as has fallen on hers. They shall go down with her. Her sins have brought her fall. But this was just a slight sketch to let you know what can happen." Next day Father Divine was "tired." Over him hung not only the assault charge, which he and other Harlemites seemed to think would be difficult to make stick, but also charges against other members of his cult: that his coal truck drivers were dealing in bootleg coal; that a 13-year-old was being overworked in a Divine restaurant...