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Depression being what it is in France, this struggling emporium of tourist thrills offers for 150 francs ($10) in the afternoon or 450 francs ($30) in the evening to flog soundly one of its garmentless daughters of joy, first on a certified medieval torture wheel, then on an authentic "Spanish donkey" once used by the Inquisition and finally on a guillotine hitherto of somewhat doubtful authenticity...
Utterly exhausted, afraid to close an eye lest the man at the controls doze off and wreck the plane, John and Kenneth yet refused to land, insisted they were feeling fine." boasted they would flog their complaining craft along until July...
Specifically, two men and eight women members of the cult were convicted of having entered the oratory of a priest, the Abbé des Noyers, at Bombon,* and there stripped him naked, bound him to a table and flogged him with knotted ropes. One of the convicted, Mme. Robert, openly exulted that she had been the last to flog the Abbé before he swooned; and her 17-year-old daughter boasted that she had not only taken a hand in flogging the Abbé but had thrown pepper in his eyes...
...only to defend our Sainted Mother Marie, whose statue of the Blessed Virgin now weeps* night and day. . . . We await such punishment as may be meted out to us as martyrs. We have only done our duty." Mme. Robert, who had declared earlier that she was the last to flog the Abbé des Noyers before he swooned, opened her testimony with a prayer. Said she: "We were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorcery." "She lies!" cried the Abbé des Noyers. Later, the 17-year-old daughter of Mme. Robert, described...
...failure in point of completeness if the Seniors who have neglected to send in their "lives" and pictures do not do so at once. The committee is doing its best; it is strenuously trying to get every man into the Album. But it cannot coerce men; it cannot flog them to the photographer or squeeze the "lives" out of them. The Seniors must show a little interest themselves; many haven...