Word: pregnants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accused of raping a pregnant white woman, Parker was abducted by 15 to 20 masked men only 48 hours before his trial in Judge Dale's court. At least ten members of the lynch mob were named by the FBI in a report to Governor James P. Coleman, who had called the G-men into the case. But the 378-page dossier, said Pearl River District Attorney Vernon Broom last week, was mostly "hearsay." The grand jury did not even get to see the FBI findings. Leaving the case "unsolved," the grand jury thanked Judge Dale for his "inspired...
...advantages of adultery, the film goes on to make it clear to the movie audience that sexual dalliance between unmarried adolescents is really quite all right, provided they are in love and are willing to confess all to their parents and stand up in church when the girl gets pregnant...
...when the old Southern aristocracy had become a pushover for vulgar, illiterate climbers. Flem's god was money, because money was power, and in the end it led even to respectability. To get money, he trampled over the less cunning, blandly jobbed the unsuspecting; he married the casually pregnant daughter of the big man in Frenchman's Bend, and with equal blandness allowed himself to be cuckolded by a banker because it helped Flem to become the bank's president. Behind him he left a trail of foreclosed mortgages, underhanded legal victories, cold-blooded assaults on human...
...hero pleads with the big Broadway producer to come down and catch his act, but the brute, who later confesses that he loathes all actors, gives him the brush. Meanwhile the hero's girl comes east, gets a job, persuades him to marry her, gets pregnant, begs him to quit the stage, loses hope and the baby, runs home to mother and gets a divorce. Grimly true to his art, the hero hangs on. And so it goes for an hour and three-quarters, through every possible vicissitude of a Broadway career-from Sorry...
...Superintendent Hazard (Nigel Patrick) is on the trail at once. Sapphire was a student at the Royal Academy of Music and the fiancee of a pallid architecture student (Paul Massie), who has just won a scholarship for study in Italy. When autopsy shows that she was three months pregnant, the murder motive seems clear: the young architect's scholarship makes no provision for wife or baby; he and his ambitious family would not stop short of murder to see to it that they had a Wren rather than a turkey in the oven...