Word: lynchers
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...raze Nauvoo. The 38-year-old prophet surrendered himself as a hostage for his people-and sealed his own fate. A mob with their faces disguised with paint invaded Carthage jail, shot him as he tried to escape from a window. As he fell to the ground, a lyncher with a bowie knife prepared to cut off his head, despite the remonstrances of a horrified bystander (see cut). But as he died, the prophet had one more triumph; the sun blazed out, illuminating the jail yard, and the man with the knife shrank away...
Inevitably through this treatment, Clark tends to overemphasize the psychological battles within the minds of each individual in the lynching mob. He seems to endow the characters with a hesitance, a doubtfulness about the righteousness of their course which would not exist in reality. The lyncher when in white heat blazes with his hate, he does not consider in rational terms. Clark's lynchers tend to think too much...
...Senate's sharpest parliamentarians, protested that this would violate their agreement. At this juncture Vice President Garner, who like his chief had an aching tooth and wanted no part of the headache that was to follow, surrendered his gavel to Senator Clark. No sooner had Anti-Lyncher Clark recognized Anti-Lyncher Wagner to introduce debate on his bill than Texas' old Tom Connally got the floor to touch off the filibuster that the Senate had managed to postpone last summer...
...smoking ruin in which, at the flaming window of a cell, Katharine Grant has a last glimpse of her fiance. But a newsreel unit arrives before the militia. Wilson, who has escaped, sees in a theatre the story of his own burning. He sees the faces of the lynchers and memorizes them. To his brothers (Frank Albertson, George Walcott) he confides his purpose. He will have every lyncher hanged for his own "death." The brothers help a zealous prosecutor press the charges against 22 indicted lynchers...
...Hell!" cried a lyncher. "He don't want to talk. String...