Word: hickman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though she can comprehend the nature and consequences of her acts, her will is powerless to deter her from courses of conduct that have their roots in her emotional abnormality," glibly states her lawyer in his plea for elemency. It is said that the defence of young Hickman will be virtually the same, in his instance the abnormality being sadism. These two cases, together with the shocking acquittal of bootlegger Remus, seem a perfect justification of Governor Smith's plan for a board of criminologists and psychiatrists who might make disposal of all convicted criminals. It would remove the perplexing...
...give you just 15 seconds to rell how many 4's are in 32!" It was one Mary Hickman, teacher, addressing spindle-shanked Jimmy Edwin Christman, aged nine...
...answer it, Miss Hickman...
...child's lips were locked. Seized with black despair in the face of ignorance that she could not dispel, and of suffering that she had caused, Teacher Hickman lapsed completely into the primitive. She lashed out with her broomstick in a shower of blows. She squatted on the floor, clenched her teeth and battered the child's shins until he toppled upon the floor, still silent about...
...revealed a fracture in Jimmy Christman's left tibia. He lay abed in a plaster cast, reading the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.* His classmates were safeguarded against Teacher Hickman by her removal...