Word: lynched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that I was a Judas, a traitor, a high-blown intellectual who betrayed his alma mater. Today is my birthday, and it is 15 below zero. I am whimpering by my fireplace . . . expecting any moment to hear the roar of the crowd as they march up my street to lynch me. ... I couldn't find anything inaccurate in the story, except it gave the impression Wisconsin was the rougher of the teams, which it wasn't, and didn't say that Iowa had 32 fouls and Wisconsin only 15. . . . Please don't give me another athletic...
Thanks for the splendid cover story on Rebecca West [TIME, Dec. 8]. . . . However, I think you did the good lady an injustice by failing to mention her coverage of the mass lynch trials at Greenville, S.C., last spring. . . . Not only was her writing style superb, but as a reporter she dug up facts that none of the rest of us were able to uncover, angles that we of the deadline-plagued, spot-news journalism missed in passing...
Died. Mrs. Harriet Gardiner Lynch Coogan, 86, wealthy recluse with a monumental grudge against High Society, longtime owner of "Whitehall," aristocratic Newport's most tumbledown eyesore: in Manhattan. Owner of a vast real-estate fortune, which she managed in a cubbyhole office from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., Mrs. Coogan had sulked in seclusion in a hotel suite for 32 years. She walked out of Whitehall in 1910 (in a huff, according to Society legend, after giving a big party which Society boycotted), never returned, refused to sell the place, just let it stand there rotting...
...lynch plot was discovered. Lieut. Thomas Massie and his collaborators were arrested and convicted of manslaughter -then freed after serving a sentence of one hour. The rape charges against the five men (including the murdered Kahahawai) were dropped for lack of evidence...
Decrying the prejudiced picture of a "lynch-happy United States populated by the selfish rich" which her fellow-delegates gave to the Youth of the world, Miss Wright laid most of the blame for misrepresentation to the political naivete of the average American and to the State Department's shortsightedness in not sponsoring the delegation...