Word: crime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing daunted, the Crime gridders, outpayed 20 pounds to the man, took to the practice field today. They ran through a series of baffling "dotted i" plays that caused a broad feline grin to spread across the bewhiskered visage of CRIMSON head coach R. Sibley ("The Cat") Ludendorf, who, in one of his rare statements to the press, termed the workout "schwell...
...Crime & Punishment. In Vipers' Tangle, the central character is a hateful old man who schemes to leave his money to an illegitimate son in return for the love denied him by his family. When the son conspires against him, the old man discovers that love cannot be bought, then gives the money to his greedy legitimate children as a sort of franc-for-franc payment of their grudging affection. In giving up his wealth he experiences an insight into godly love, but apparently too late for him to be saved on earth...
...familiar and dreadful form of The Trial. The world, with one war still red under its nails and another beating in its belly, knew, more or less subconsciously, that it would have to build a prisoner's dock bigger than the subcontinent of India, that the crime was not contained by geography, and that the less the crime was understood the more it would infect the whole of humanity...
...story is set in the early 1760s. Miss Goddard, an English girl, is accused -unjustly, of course-of crime, and is sentenced to 14 years' slavery in North America. The highest bid comes from Captain Cooper of the Virginia militia. A scoundrel, Howard DaSilva, tricks Cooper out of his new property. The picture thereupon settles down in and near Fort Pitt, which every schoolboy will presumably recognize as early Pittsburgh...
...night, afraid of everyone, he becomes a Judas, and a truly tragic figure. While the picture takes him through one night of repentance, drinking, boasting, but mainly fear, we see every side of a man who tries to hide from himself, and finally in death understands his great crime...