Word: pervert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a jury in Old Bailey Court found brave Captain Miles guilty of "corruption and conspiring to pervert the administration of justice." Grimly the judge sentenced him to four years in jail...
...based on the famous Dusseldorf murders of a few years ago, when a madman managed to kill eight children before he was apprehended, and a certain grim note is added to the picture by the knowledge that it is not a fictional account. The murderer is obviously a sexual pervert, a fact that is brought out beautifully and skillfully--who finds himself ruled by an insatiable desire to murder small children. In satisfying his passion he terrorizes the city: the police unable to find him, take to rounding up the underworld: whereupon gangland sets out to get the murderer...
...Insull to come back and see what he can do with Middle West; they are willing to admit that the man who is supposed to have lost their money for them is the only man who has much prospect of getting it back again. Samuel Insull did not pervert the systems of capitalistic finance, and he is not a big had wolf. Only in the crescendo does the theme become manifest, and only in a simon-pure capitalist like Mr. Insull do the real implications of capitalism become obvious and legible...
...story of a Florida beach comber who discovers the submerged wreck of a liner. Some of the other tales: A terrified adolescent tries to castrate himself with a razor. Two lovers part when the girl turns Lesbian. The manager of a Mexican matador who is a miser and a pervert finally gets fed up with his stinginess, but is unable to insult him. A shell-shocked U. S. soldier horrifies his Italian brothers-in-arms by getting the horrors in public. A little boy with fever lies waiting for death all day because he does not know the difference between...
...Jelliffe's collaborator, Dr. White, testified to the insanity by which Clarence Darrow got life imprisonment for Chicago's pervert-murderers Leopold and Loeb in 1924. *Correct answer, according to Dr. Jelliffe: "One has feathers and the other has wings." †Which Dr. Jelliffe said everyone knows are not fish...