Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentences averaging three years each, and 49 others were fined a total of $18,250. Even Hamilton's top lieutenant in Columbus County, Ex-Con stable Early Brooks, already sentenced to prison, was glad to see the wizard get it. "Somebody ought to be assigned to whip hell outa him," said Brooks. "And I'd like...
...Chicago among politicians who could be considered highly sensitive to the divorce issue. At a caucus of the Massachusetts delegation, predominantly Roman Catholic, one delegate brought up the divorce question. Another said Stevenson couldn't be blamed for the divorce, because his wife divorced him. Said the delegate: "Hell, half of our wives would divorce us if they could." A roar of laughter swept the caucus room. On the third ballot, Massachusetts cast 25 of its 36 votes for divorced Adlai Stevenson...
Heaven or Hell? Apparently unmoved by the pleas of one & all, Stevenson stuck to his now familiar story. While avid newsmen lay on the floor of an adjoining room eavesdropping under a heavy curtain, Stevenson told a "secret" session of the Illinois delegation that he was not "temperamentally, physically or mentally" equipped for the presidency. Insisting once again that all he wanted to be was governor of Illinois, he recalled the story of the man who had been asked whether he wanted to go to heaven or hell. The answer: "I want to stay right here...
Painter Bosch's versions of Hell are waist-deep in griffins, scarabs, metallic demons with forked tails, sinners whose truncated bodies are pierced by huge swords or impaled on giant musical instruments. Although he had his gentler moments on canvas, his earthly scenes abound in abandoned lovers, tortured sick men and money-loving monks, with a watching demon or two always close at hand. Through them runs a train of almost surrealistic symbolism, a cross patch of a witches' Sabbath and a psychoanalyst's nightmare, that has fascinated and baffled five centuries of art critics...
...famous triptych which Bosch called The Millennium, more often known as The Garden of Early Delights. Its three panels represent, respectively, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, a panorama of naked and untrammeled figures disporting themselves in the world outside, and a scene of dark punishment in Hell. Most critics hold this to be a logical sequence of Creation, worldly pleasure and eternal punishment. Fränger disagrees. He believes that Bosch's naked figures represent not lust but "primal innocence." In his view, the artist was portraying an "Adamite family ... in which unbounded sensual delight...