Word: lashings
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Last week the third Federal lash was laid across the porcine back of Chicago's Alphonse Capone. In addition to the six-month sentence he received (and has appealed) for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9), and the indictment for income tax evasion for which he may receive 32 years in prison and a fine of $80.000 (TIME, June 15), he and 68 henchmen were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiracy to violate the national Prohibition laws. The true bill did not mention the various Capone sidelines such as gambling, bordellos, whiskey peddling, specified only the "manufacture...
...royal right hand was a heavy whip. With the royal left His Majesty seized the priest by his beard, dragged him from the pulpit, flung him screaming on the flagstones. Lash after lash, lash after lash, lash after lash. . . . The priest at length ceased to scream, fainted, lay as though dead. To the faithful His Majesty then stated that Her Majesty never lifts her vail in public, thereupon strode from the mosque with clinking spurs while fellow priests revived the flogged zealot...
...passed on to the billiard balls. Of course, there are only two homes in the Yard...and the Vagabond has always made it a cardinal principle to lash the vice and space the name...
...Lash", Richard "Barthelmess vehicle, and attempt is made to re-create the conditions that existed in California in 1846 when that Mexican territory was annexed to the United States. The plot is concerned with the efforts of an old feudal family to withstand the introduction of Americans and their ways into their set and radically different mode of life. Barthelmess, as the young Mexican of noble birth, turns outlaw as the result of a beating he receives at the hands of a government official, and roams the countryside trying to preserve his ancestral ranch, and indigenous qualities of his people...
...Behind Office Doors" the theme is hardly less romantic than that of "The Lash", but instead of having the vast plains as a locale, the action occurs in a modern business office...