Word: lynched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back in the Park.) "Kill him! Kill him! Lynch him!" cried angry voices in the crowd around Joe Zangara. The police yanked him to a waiting car into which some of his victims were being loaded. They shoved him onto the trunk rack, mounted guard on the bumpers. The car jerked forward. Joe Zangara fell off. Police threw him back on, held him down...
...began when President Brucer, wife of an unemployed carpenter, met Arthur J. Lynch during the Presidential campaign. Mr. Lynch, then a Dry pressagent for the Business Men's Prohibition Foundation, was plying his trade in behalf of the Republican ticket. Soon Mrs. Brucer discovered that Mrs. Lynch, a volatile Frenchwoman who once was a War nurse, was not "treating Mr. Lynch right." Mrs. Brucer rented a room in a Dearborn Street boarding house for her new-found friend, fed him. In return, he helped her prepare her temperance speeches, research alcohol problems. "All the men in the Business...
Unhappily, on Christmas Eve, Press-agent Lynch pursued his alcoholic researches to the point of inebriation. Mrs. Brucer said she discovered his condition, put him to bed, administered hot coffee until very late...
...Lynch had a variorum account. She marched into Woman's Court, declared that Mrs. Brucer and Mr. Lynch had "gone to a cabaret and gotten drunk." She charged alienation of affections and adultery. The Court permitted a disorderly conduct complaint to be lodged against the Dry crusader, later mollified the Frenchwoman with Mrs. Brucer's promise never again to see Mr. Lynch...
...Duff" Duffield was graduated the same year as the late Author Jesse Lynch Williams, the late Georgia Publisher Boudre Phinizy, Alonzo Church, vice-chancellor of New Jersey, Dr. Evan Evans, rich Manhattan physician. Lawyer Theodore Wilson Morris Jr., partner of Democrat John William Davis, and Varnum Lansing ("Wilkie") Collins, Princeton's Secretary. "Duff" was celebrated for an oration called "Scotch Granite," extolling Princeton's early President John Witherspoon. With generous gestures and booming voice, he delivered "Scotch Granite" whenever asked, passing it off many a time as extemporaneous. Because Edward Duffield's large bulk was mounted heavily upon large feet...